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Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places Mansi Champaneria Lethbridge College

SMOKING CIGARETTES 2 Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places Smoking is a practice in which smoke is breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream by burning substances like cigarettes. Smoking cigarettes are directly responsible for approximately 30% of all cancer deaths and 87% of the lung cancer deaths annually in the United States (Peterson, 2017). The government of India implemented strong policies to broadcast its harmful effects with focusing on a quote, “smoking is injurious to health” in the beginning of the movie to spread awareness. Smoking should be completely banned in public places because it is harmful to “ALL”. Since it has been the cause of several debilitating diseases, there have been long debates about smoking to be banned. Despite positive sensation associated with smoking, the argument against smoking, especially in public places, has become more strident. Smoking is known to cause several deadly diseases such as lung cancer, oral cancer, heart diseases, and birth defects among women who smoked during pregnancy. Smoking also damages fertility and impotence in some men. People believed that smoking helps to reduce the weight, but recent studies found that “the medical records of thousands of people who found that heavy smoking (40 and more cigarettes per day) is strongly associated with an increase in risk of obesity, while light smoking (dozen cigarettes per day) has an opposite effect” (Gadye, 2015). The risk for dying of smoking has increased over last 50 years in United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2016). In India, smoking is completely banned in public places such as healthcare, educational and government facilities, and on public transportation with a law that permits the establishment of separate smoking areas or spaces in airports, hotels, and restaurant while areas like stadiums, auditorium, railway station, and bus stands are smoke-free. “The majority (80%) of the transit system in America banned smoking and violence consequences ranged widely from none to

SMOKING CIGARETTES 3 verbal warnings, ejection from transit property, fines, and imprisonment” (Klein, Kennedy and Berman, 2014). These policies can help protect a vulnerable population from the harmful effects of smoking and communicate in a smoke-free environment. Many smokers think that they are only harming their own body and are responsible for the damage they cause to themselves, but they are ignorant about the fact that smoking in public places is indirectly affecting others’ health who are not smoking, which is basically known as passive smokers or secondhand smokers. Approximately 4,38,000 Americans die from smokingrelated illnesses each year (Peterson, 2017). Smoking cigarettes have dangerous effects on children compared to adults. Those children are at high risk of getting disease and various health issues whose parents are addicted to smoking (Glantz and Parmley, 1995). According to “Tissue paper” experiment demonstrated by students of SVNIT (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology), India (2013), revealed that the air breathed out by the smokers after smoking contained more dark color harmful particles compared to the air breathed in by the smokers after smoking. Thus, passive smokers breathe the air that is exhaled by smokers and is at high risk. Passive or non-smokers are exposed to these smokes in everyday life exhibit an increased risk of both fatal and non-fatal cardiac events (Glantz and Parmley, 1995). Passive smoking affects people who are exposed to smokers and their surroundings, is a major reason for the enforcement of smoking bans to stop individuals from smoking in indoor or public places such as bars, pubs, and restaurants. Home-smoking bans promote anti-smoking attitudes among youth and reduce progression to smoking experimentation among youths who live with non-smokers (Klein, Kennedy, and Berman, 2014). Few studies have addressed the independent effect of bans on youth who live with smokers are at greatest risk for becoming smokers themselves. According to Centers for disease control and prevention (2016), “4.00,000

SMOKING CIGARETTES 4 smokers die yearly from smoking-related diseases and a further 50,000 non-smokers die from passive or secondhand smoking in the United States. In China, about 1.2 million people die yearly from smoking”. Smoking not only affects the health of people but it also influences the surrounding atmosphere. Smokers are the direct contributors towards environment pollution. The chemicals present in cigarettes, which are breathed out and released into the atmosphere which leads to air pollution and increasing global warming. Cigarette butts also litter the environment and release some toxic chemicals that remain to seep the soil and waterways. Therefore, causing soil and water pollution. Smoking globally emits nearly 5.2 billion kilograms of methane and 2.6 billion kilograms of carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere each year (AMJ Public, 2006). The Study led by San Diego State University Researchers (2017), investigated various factors that contribute to air pollution in the house. They concluded that smoking cigarettes was the major home-air pollutant. They leave some yellowish-black matter on the corner of the walls which contains toxic chemicals released by breathing out the smoke. The argument against smoking especially in public place became more strident. Apart from the fact that smoking brings positive sensation, lessen stress, and gives a feeling of satisfaction and relief for a short period of time. Teenagers start getting addicted to smoking to be cool in the society, but they don’t know how much harm they are giving to their body. They are inviting the health problems to cause after smoking. It is not easy to stop smoking for those who are addicted to smoking. Gadye (2015) mentioned that smokers consider smoking cigarettes as an everyday meal and when they are asked to stopped smoking, affects their body language physically as well as mentally. Scientific research proved that many people who decided to quit smoking suffered psychologically from a high level of anxiety, and shivering. So, it can be said

SMOKING CIGARETTES 5 that ban on smoking will prevent smokers from being addicted to smoking. Peterson (2017) argued that “The pleasure that comes out from smoking one cigarette into another will bite them on the back in near future and they have to be responsible for their own health”. The fact revealed that cigarette smoking kills an unacceptable number of people yearly and the argument that it is within the rights of smokers to choose to smoke is rather mute because cigarettes smoking kills thousands of smokers as well as non-smokers. Various policies implemented by the government with taking strict action on violating will prevent smokers to smoke in public places. However, the law preventing smoking may not stop current smokers from smoking cigarettes, but it will prevent future smokers. Eventually, ban on smoking will promote a healthy environment and save lives of many.

SMOKING CIGARETTES 6 References Centers for disease control and prevention., (2016). Smoke free policies improves health., Journal of Smoking and Tobacco use. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand_smoke/protection/i mprove_health/index.htm Gadye, L., (2015). Here are the ways of smoking may be "good" for you., Journal of Health. Retrieved from https://io9.gizmodo.com/here-are-the-ways-smokingmay-actually-be-good-for-yo-1721438933 Glantz, S. A., Parmley, W. W., (1995). Passive smoking and heart disease, mechanism and risks., Journal of JAMA (1995). Retrieved from https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/387760 Klien, E. G., Kennedy, R. D., Berman, M., (2014). Tobacco control policies in outdoor areas of high volume American transit system., Journal of Media New York (2014). Retrieved from http://library.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca:2235/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer? vid=63&sid=a8edc521-9cd1-4268-80d6-7a3ff071c653%40sessionmgr103 Peterson, A. V., (2017). Youth and Adult Smoking Research., Journal of Fred Hutch. Retrieved from https://www.fredhutch.org/en/labs/phs/projects/yasr.html San Diego University., (2017). Smoking out source of in-home air pollution. Journal of Science Daily. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170518143852.htm SGlantZ, (2016). India's strong policy to protect the public from onscreen smoking is under attack., Journal of University of California San Francisco

SMOKING CIGARETTES 7 Retrieved from https://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/blog/india%E2%80%99s-strongpolicy-protect-public-onscreen-smoking-under-attack...