Essays on Second Hand Smoke

People are unconsciously embracing slow and painful death every single day. This is evident from the thousands of people who smoke cigarettes on a daily basis despite being warned and reminded that smoking is harmful and it kills. According to a report prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC, currently, 42.1 million of American adults are smokers (Jamal et al.). Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that smoke-related illnesses accounts for around 480, 000 deaths annually in the United States, which makes cigarette smoking as the number one cause of ...

Smoking Ban

Smoking is a dreadful habit that not only affects the person doing it but the set of people related to the person as well the set of people that are around that person while smoking. Smoking is an addictive disease that causes damage to the liver as well as the other major organs of the body. Seeing that there are many hazardous effects of smoking, most of the countries have a ban on smoking in public places. This rule has been laid forward because smokers are ruining their health by choice but if they are allowed to smoke in public, they ...

Smoking has already been identified by numerous publications and journals as one of the top risk factors for the development of heart and cardiopulmonary diseases. This rationale has been used by policy makers to make policies and ordinances that prohibit the act of smoking tobacco products in public places. Unfortunately, some countries are yet to follow suit. Their ordinances and legislations’ laxity against the spread of second hand smoke are evidenced by the fact that smoking in public places are not yet fully enforced. In an academic journal published in the Journal of American Association in 2006, the authors ...

Introduction

Smoking occurs as one of the widely discussed topics across various settings all over the world. This can be attributed to the effects that smoking has on the overall health of smokers and those who live with smokers. Smoking mainly refers to the act of smoking cigarette and other tobacco containing substances. In addition, smoking can occur in cases where someone smokes certain substances such as marijuana. As previously mentioned, smoking has a negative effect on the smokers as well as those who live with the smokers. For people who live with smokers, they are affected because they inhale second ...

Introduction

Smoking ban refers to the prohibition of smoking as part of public policies for occupational safety and health regulations in office buildings and public places like bars, restaurants, city parks, college campuses and even public beaches. The rationale used for introducing smoking ban was to prevent second hand smoking. It has been estimated that the number of deaths caused by second hand smoking in USA is more than 42,000 people every year including infants (CDC #1, 2014). Since the implementation of this ban has made it a troublesome for smokers to smoke freely in places of their choice, many ...

English 103

Tobacco has a long history in the America since 600 to 900 A.D. It was used predominantly in medical purposes and the people on that time did not smoke every day (Healthliteracy.worlded.org). Today, smoking has become the major problem in the world since 1950s. According to the cross-section data obtained from 187 countries, nowadays there are more than 967 million of people, who smoke every day compared to 721 million in 1980s (BBC.com). It comprises about 1/10 population in the world and there are more than 480,000 deaths per year that are caused by smoking cigarettes in the United ...

Abstract

This paper proposes that The Clean Indoor Act must be amended to ensure that there are no exceptions and that all public places are tobacco-free. This amendment will help further reduce the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke. Smoking in the public subjects passersby to second hand or passive tobacco smoke. Passive smoking is an act of an individual inhaling in other people’s smoke. Second hand smoke has many effects on the health of non-smokers. Therefore, it is vital to safeguard their health. Since this is a statutory law, the changes can only be made by the state’s legislature. ...

With marijuana on the verge of legalization and commercialization nationwide, comparing its use with that of tobacco is important. Needed are objective studies of whether use of one affects use of the other. Following is an outline such a report. I. Introduction II. FREQUENCY OF USING EACH SUBSTANCE AND BOTH SUBSTANCES This section consists of showing and analyzing frequency counts and cross-tabs from random samples. One can break them down by features such as demographics, education, etc. Though results might become more stable after marijuana has been legal for several years, this exercise can help prepare for ...

Introduction

A decision to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes has been delayed, as the U.K waits to see how the policy worked in Australia. Doctors and health campaigner groups have criticized the government’s decision to lower the price of alcohol to a minimum. This idea has formally been abandoned. Ben Wright who is a BBC political correspondent has suggested that these policies have proved to be unpopular with the voters. They have put their focus on economic messages, which will run up to the next election period. Ministers have shown their interest in the packaging proposal (Clarke, 2005, P. 447-463). This ...

Mathematics

Abstract Stopping young people from using tobacco is very important because most of the people who become regular smokers and find other ways to regularly use tobacco start when they are young. Most adult smokers started before the age of 26. Tobacco products are devastating to the human body, causing lowered quality of life and early death. The research concluded that public health messages, especially with television ads were very effective in changing young peoples’ attitudes towards using tobacco from positive to negative. The two must useful campaigns showed graphic images of the impact of tobacco on the ...

The Marion County

The research on tobacco prevention was in Marion County in Indiana State, which is one of the counties found in the United States of America. Marion County found in Indianapolis states with Indian being the capital of the Indianapolis State, which is the largest city in the whole region. The county covers approximately 403.01 square miles or 1,043.8 kilometers square. The county is 98.34% covered by land and the rest 1.66% is water. The population in the county as seen in the previous census reflected a 903,393 figure rendering it as the 55th most inhabited county among all ...

The Marion County

The research on tobacco prevention was in Marion County in Indiana State, which is one of the counties found in the United States of America. Marion County found in Indianapolis states with Indian being the capital of the Indianapolis State, which is the largest city in the whole region. The county covers approximately 403.01 square miles or 1,043.8 kilometers square. The county is 98.34% covered by land and the rest 1.66% is water. The population in the county as seen in the previous census reflected a 903,393 figure rendering it as the 55th most inhabited county among all ...

Arguably, many countries in the globe have laws that regulate or prohibit smoking in various places. As a matter of fact, smoking affects both smokers and non-smokers. The two types of smokers that is the active and passive smokers faces tremendous consequences, but the differences arise in the sense that an active smoker makes the choice to smoke while a passive smoker is just a victim of smoking by inhaling the smoke. Nonsmokers and smokers meet in various public places such as hotels, restaurants, busses, offices, as well as various institutions and each one should enjoy their life whatever. Smokers have the ...

As we were walking home after school, we met a certain man smoking in the pavement and it made me sneeze several times. I complained about smoking in public to my friends and the boys in our company disputed it. One of my friends Dave said that we ladies love ourselves so much and should keep off other people’s lives and let them smoke. He claimed that they can do it anywhere they want because it is their life and body and if it was harmful, it will affect their bodies, yet we have been taught severally that smoking ...

According to Willbert (2012) in the article, prohibiting cigarette use in the US; very beneficial for citizens, he has noted that, there is no any nationwide federal ban prohibiting people from smoking in public places in the United States because the congress have not taken a serious concern on the issue. Therefore, most smoking bans in the US are enactments of the occupational safety and health laws, state laws as well as local criminal laws. Hence, smoking laws are not consistent but they vary widely throughout the US. Some states have not controlled smoking at all, other states have regulated ...

Looking around the world today, it is almost impossible to find a place where someone is not smoking cigarettes. Even with all the news coverage and stories told of the harmful affects of this addiction, people still can’t seem to stop themselves from lighting one up over and over again and although it has risen slightly, the age at which smoking starts is still alarming. Most smokers try their first cigarette before the age of 18 and become addicted during their adolescence. Studies of smokers have indicated that the younger the age someone starts smoking, the greater the risk ...

Health issues

Nearly all the body parts are affected by smoking. Starting from the head all the way down, smoking affects the functioning of these body organs. To begin with, as a person smokes, the smoke passes through the mouth to the other parts of the respiratory system. The mouth is therefore the first organ to be exposed to risk of infection. Cancer of the mouth is one of the most common types of diseases affecting smoking individuals (Anderson 15). This is because the chemicals contained in cigarettes causes the antibodies on the surfaces of the mouth to die. This thus leaves ...