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They dont get your wind, smoke all you want -Camel smoking company. Scientifically proven to be less irritating to the nose and throat -Phillip Morris smoking company, 1943.Lowest nicotine, lowest tars, and lowest resins -Old Gold smoking company. No other cigarette is safer to smoke! Raleigh smoking company, which hired Babe Ruth to promote their cigarettes, who ironically later died of throat cancer. These are past slogans of cigarette companies. They know the hazards of cigarettes, yet they keep selling them. We know the hazards of smoking, yet consumers keep buying them! I dont comprehend why people would keep buying a product that makes them look older, increases their risk for cancer, and shortens their life span! Those are just a few things that cigarettes do to harm the body, there are countless others. The answer is simple as to why people keep buying cigarettes after they try them, and that is because of a chemical called nicotine. Nicotine is highly addictive, and it is very hard to quit sustaining your body with this chemical. Cigarette companies use nicotine to their advantage as it makes you addicted to their product. Research has shown that cigarette companies have known about the health risks of smoking since the 1940s. They kept it to themselves until the health hazards went public. That is when they started developing slogans like the ones above to make people think that their companys cigarette isnt very bad for you. Odds are most people have never seen a slogan like this Our cigarettes contain over 400 harmful toxins! or Our cigarettes have caused thousands of cases of lung cancer!. Companies arent going to tell you those things because that isnt going to sell their product to consumers, telling the consumer what they want to hear is what is going to get them to buy the product. They are pretty much selling you a gun that has a chance of having a bullet, and every time you smoke a cigarette you are pulling the trigger, hoping it doesnt shoot. But then not only are you pointing the gun at yourself, but at everyone around you! The people around you are breathing in the same hazards yo u are, so now they have to hope the gun doesnt fire! Most people care about their health so a ban on smoking in public would be appreciated by a lot of people. Washington does have some strict smoking rules, but in my opinion they arent strict enough because I am still breathing in those toxic fumes. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has researched side-stream smoke (smoke inhaled by people around a smoker) and studies have shown that side-stream smoke contains two to five more times the number of carcinogens as the smoke the inhaled by the smoker. A carcinogen is any substance that increases the risk for cancer. That means that anyone around a smoker has about two to five times as much of a chance to get cancer from that cigarette more then the smoker themselves. No one should have the right to increase anyones risk for cancer, along with harming them with all the other hazards cigarette smoke gives off.Cigarettes contain over 4000 chemical compounds that you breathe in every time you walk past a smoker. As stated earlier, over 400 of these are toxic. Some of these toxic chemicals are Tar, which increases the risk for cancer; Nicotine, which is an extremely addictive substance that increases Cholesterol; and Carbon Monoxide, which reduces the amount of Oxygen in the body. Almost anyone that you ask will think that lung cancer is the number one harmful effect of smoking. Well they are wrong because there is something more fatal caused by smoking, and that is heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and is the leading cause of death in smokers. Researchers report that in the year 2000 alone there were 1,690,000 deaths of smokers due to cardiovascular disease (heart disease). In that same year there were 850,000 lung cancer deaths. That many deaths occurred due to smoking, and those were just two of the health problems that smoking causes. Smoking also increases your risk of having a stroke, of Graves Disease, of Thyroid Disease, Gingivitis (gum disease), and of countless cancers. These are just some of the more common health problems caused, but there are many more. Side-stream smoke increases your risk of all of these diseases even more!
Most people attempt to quit at some point in their life due to these health problems. The sad thing is that the nicotine makes it difficult to quit so on average it takes a person four to five tries before they can give up smoking for good. Another common reason people try to quit is because of their children. Most people care about their childrens health, so they give up smoking not just to avoid the effects of side-stream smoke for their children, but to be a better influence on their kids. There are many techniques to quitting such as nicotine patches and nicotine gum. Both of those methods give you a reduced amount of nicotine, which slowly lowers your addiction. You know briefly about a few types of cancers that smoking causes, but there are many more then previously explained. Smoking increases the chance of the smoker getting lung, oral cavity (mouth), pharynx, larynx, esophagus (squamous-cell carcinoma), pancreas, and bladder and renal pelvis (the kidney outlet) cancers. The odds are extremely high that if you smoke for a long period of time, you will be diagnosed with some form of cancer. According to the World Health Organization, someone dies as a result of smoking every 6.5 seconds. By the time you have read this paragraph, someone has died as a result of cigarette smoking, that is just to give you an idea of how fast that is. Second-hand smoking kills 50,000 people each year! Those are people who have never touched a cigarette, yet they die from cigarette smoke. To me that seems like murder because those people died as a result of people smoking in public. Those people lose their lives because of someone elses actions. Not only that, second-hand smoking harms your children also. No one would let a stranger with a knife stab their child every time they walked by them, so why would people let someone with a cigarette stab their childs health. Those coughs you hear your child make after walking past a smoker arent just coincidentalthat smoke is killing them! No one has the right to harm someone else, yet it goes on day by day and most people just go on with their lives, letting others harm your health. We shouldnt let people have that right!
One of the larger smoking in public arguments is Smokers pay taxes on cigarettes, and taxes pay for public structures, so why shouldnt smokers be allowed to smoke where they paid for? Another one that has come to my attention is If a business owner owns a business shouldnt they be allowed to let people smoke in their business building, which is part of the public?
My first point is against the argument smokers pay taxes on their cigarettes, and the taxes help pay for the public property, so why shouldnt they be allowed to smoke in an area that they helped pay for? Well smokers pay taxes to harm their own health, they dont pay taxes on cigarettes in order to harm someone else. Non-smokers also pay taxes, and they dont want to pay to fuel someones addiction, especially when it backfires and non-smokers end up paying to create health hazards. My second refute is against the argument if a business owner owns a building, they should be allowed to let people smoke there without government restrictions? If that were the case then the government would have to allow smoking pot in a business owned building or shooting up Heroine. If its in the public, even at a privately owned business, you still have customers that go in there and breathe in that smoke which effects their own personal health.
That is why I believe there should be a ban on smoking in public. As an American citizen it is our right to protect ourselves. We shouldnt have to breathe in toxic fumes because someone else is addicted to a disgusting substance. Not only does it protect ourselves, but it protects the children of America, and we owe it to the children to protect them. The next time you hear your child wheezing from the toxic fumes coming off the end of a strangers cigarette I hope you do something about it.
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