With a puff a day, one will be seeing the doctor every day. Cigarettes are like buying death sticks, which slowly kills one by opening the doors for chronic diseases, for example mouth and lung cancer. Smoke does not only affect the first-hand smoker, but also the people who are inhaling the smoke. In 2004, six hundred and three thousand deaths were caused by second-hand smoke, which is about 1.0% of worldwide mortality (Inandi). Smoking in public exposes a variety of people whose age very from young to old and infirm to the smoke of cigarettes when they are outside. While provisions can be made to allow smoking in some places, should be banned because it doubles the health risks of individuals who are non-smokers by impairing their lungs and memory.
Unfortunately, many non-smoking citizens become victims to second hand smoke by being outnumbered by proactive smokers. Today, the situation may actually be worse for women compared to men, the death rate of females is increasing because sixty percent of nonsmokers are females (Peruga). The death rate of women increasing due to second-hand smoking provides an imbalanced ratio between men to women (Wand). Everyone is affected by second-hand smoking; however, children are the most vulnerable and smoke estimated that one hundred and sixty-five thousand children younger than five-years-old, die every year from lower respiratory infections caused by exposure to second-hand smoke (Peruga). The first five years of a child is development is crucial for brain and physical maturation, and their immune system is developing which is not strong enough to sustain the chemicals that cigarette smoke contains. Tobacco subjection, and particularly passive fetal exposure to maternal smoking during preg...
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There are many explicit premises in this article that I will examine. The first premise is that, Tobacco companies have been and continue to be involved in undermining scientific evidence that documents the health hazards of secondhand smoke. This is more than an hidden assumption, reference from the Los Angles Times reported in November 1999 that the major cigarette companies "are engaged in a far-reaching campaign to discredit evidence that secondhand smoke is harmful to human health." This is my second premise. Here, there is an implied notion that the Los Angels Times conducted a study to find these findings true. The third premise states, Tobacco industry allies recycle old myths and propaganda - and continue to plant the seeds of confusion and doubt as to the economic effects of smoke free air policies - before legislatures and city councils. Here we see the strong initiative that the tobacco companies especially Philips and Morris take to attack policies that go against their business. The next premise is the fourth premise, As in the past, tobacco companies have continued to create and hide behind front groups to lobby against tobacco control and public health policies. This is another implied notion, which we can say that tobacco companies are trying to control the regulations on tobacco.
I am writing to inform you about the negative effects of passive smoking on a child’s health. Passive smoking also known as second hand smoking is when you inhale smoke from other people’s cigarettes, cigars or pipes. This action is very bad in concern to health overall. In children especially, the negative effects include; respiratory illness, asthma attacks and symptoms, lung airway disease, brain cancer, lymphomas and meningococcal disease. All these disease are injurious to health and is why you should not smoke around children. Second hand smokers are just as endangered as smokers as they are equally exposed to the fatal diseases.
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Secondhand smoke, we have all heard of it and know at least one person that smokes. Throughout the history of smoking, many researchers have found that secondhand smoke is more dangerous than the actual smoking of cigarettes. Many people know that there are dangers to smoking and secondhand smoke, but many tend to avoid the advice given to them. Secondhand smoke is very harmful to people of all ages. It destroys the inside and outside of one’s body. Secondhand smoke is not only dangerous indoors but as well as outdoors. On average every year there are many death results found. As humans should want to live a healthier life and come together to prevent smoking in the future.
Every year, there are over 400,000 smoking-related deaths in the United States. A large percentage of these are due to lung cancer, whose leading cause is smoking. However, not all deaths are smokers themselves. Anyone in the vicinity can fall victim to second hand smoke. These people, through no action of their own, can have their lives threatened.
Readers of the article may have a wide range of previous views, most likely depending most on whether or not they smoke and if they have children living with them. The readers will probably agree with the writer about the health risks that smoking and secondhand smoke cause, especially the effects it has on children. This article's argument would be most effective among nonsmokers, especially people that hold strong feelings against smoking or have lost a loved one to smoking.
Second Hand Smoke In the 1950's and 60's scientists gave the people a lot of evidence on the deadly effects of smoking where the tobacco companies on the other hand tried to put the doubt in people’s minds through the campaigns to show that it is not all true. By the time people actually decided to take care of their health and finally saw how life-threatening smoking could be by real life examples, the tobacco companies already got rich from its sales. Nowadays, nobody doubts that “firsthand” smoke is deadly to your health and it causes lung cancer and heart disease in adults and asthma and bronchitis in children. Now the industry is onto the secondhand smoke. Scientists and researchers are representing a lot of evidence and research that has been done throughout the years showing that the secondhand smoke can also cause a lung cancer in nonsmokers. The study has been done of people who have been long exposed to secondhand smoke and it shows that 26 out of 33 published studies indicate a link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer. The study estimates that the people that were breathing secondhand smoke were 8 to 150 percent more likely to get lung cancer. The tobacco companies are trying to argue the facts and are still in serious debate about the health hazards of breathing a secondhand smoke. A lot of anti-smoking organizations are trying to turn smoking in public into a private activity that does not have to involve nonsmokers breathing secondhand smoke. What is even more important is that many of these organizations convinced a lot of smokers to cut back or quit completely. The problem of secondhand smoke is increasing because it is so common in our society. It makes secondhand smoke the third-ranking cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers. Mothers who live with a smoking spouse have to realize the ill effects of secondhand smoke on children even before they are born. The smoking components reach the developing fetus through the mother. Infants that are born in a smoking environment weigh less and have a weaker chance of becoming a fully developed child. Secondhand smoke leads to blood clots and damages arterial linings which are the two most leading factors in the development of heart disease. The tobacco companies got scared of the effect that the secondhand smoke research can do to the cigarette makers.
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