Prevention For Non Communicable Disease

Smoking is an activity that has been around for many years for people to use and adapt into their lifestyle. It is a tool that many people use to help reduce the stresses of life and put them in a comfortable position that enables them to cope with the hectic lifestyle they are living. However, smoking has been scientifically proven to cause many types of cancer, the most common being lung cancer resulting in numerous deaths across the United States. According to BBC, "Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease" (BBC, 2). Evidently, the benefits and drawbacks of smoking have been debated for many years, and only recently have some countries have placed a ban in public places such as Britain and the United

The National Prevention Strategy aim is to increase the number of Americans to live healthy in every stage of their life (CDC, 2014). It provides leadership at the federal level that emphasize on prevention, wellness, and health promotion and its landmark represented in a vision, goals, strategic direction, priorities, recommendation, and act. The National preventive strategy supports the Affordable Care Act, as both of them emphasize on the importance of prevention for all Americans.

According to World Health report 2002, “non communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for almost 60% of the 56 million deaths annually and 47% of the global burden of disease.” The main causes of NCDs are unhealthy diet and physical inactivity (WHA, 2004). Although there are other significant contributing factors as well like tobacco and alcohol use but unhealthy food and inactivity are relatively more common risks due to increased trends of sedentary lifestyle and junk food consumption. Moreover very less attention has been given in preventing this rapidly penetrating risk factors of unhealthy diet and lack of exercise in communities. Majority of NCDs are closely related to diet like high blood pressure, high concentrations of cholesterol in the blood, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and overweight or obesity. Factors that increase the risks of NCDs include elevated consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt. (WHA, 2004).

In the Acheson Report (Acheson, 1988), public health is illustrated as the art and science of avoiding disease, extending life and promoting healthy lifestyles through the organised community efforts. It emphasises on investigating and diagnosing health issues in order to protect people’s health and make the environment healthy for individuals to live (Detels et al., 2015). Smoking is strongly associated with public health because being one of the most leading causes

Smoking is an activity in the society that has become a serious topic as it causes health problems to both smokers and passive smokers due to the inhalation of tobacco. Consequently, the most visible alternative for the legislators and other institutions in various countries is the banning of smoking in public. Smoking is not only a social habit that does harm non-smokers but it also takes away their freedom from being forced to inhale the contents of the cigarettes. Nowadays, many developed countries around the world enacted laws and established rules against smoking in public areas as a consequence of effecting "second smokers" especially children and babies. Banning should be considered the possible solution to this problem.

Smoking tobacco has been in existence for thousands of years. For most of its existence smoking has been acceptable, tolerable, and permitted in our mainstream society. In recent years, smoking tobacco has been under scrutiny. Smoking bans have been introduced to restrict smokers from smoking in public and private places. For example, restaurants, bars, hotels, parks, and beaches throughout the United States have established the bans against public smoking. I discovered this has significance as it affects society because smoking has been a staple for thousands of years and is now being questioned whether or not smoking should be permissible. As a non-smoker this affects me personally because of the health issues and death of my family

As the cultural climate toward smoking changes, restrictive workplace smoking policies are becoming widely accepted by both employers and employees. There is, however, a crucial difference between those policies which accommodate reserved areas for smoking and those which do not. Smokers at work tend to prefer the former especially when the alternative is a total ban. An evaluation of a smoking ban implemented at a Scottish University in October 1997 suggests that the total ban is not only unpopular with smokers but also among non-smokers who experience unintended consequences of the new policy. The greatest complaint from non-smokers stems from the relocation of smoking to outside and particularly around the entrances to University buildings.

Since 2004, Victoria and a number of other states have been campaigning to restrict the act of smoking — starting with proposals to make clubs, pubs and bars smoke free. In the new age of 24-hour gyms, shake weights and electronic cigarettes, Australia has been gradually moving towards a healthier population. The story is that in recognition of the harmful effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, the Australian government are taking intervention to curb the problem of public smoking,

Government could provide education about the dangers of smoking and also fund negative advertising in order to reduce demand for cigarettes. The revenue from tax imposing could be used (£100m). There is no guarantee of effectiveness of education and advertising in terms of reducing cigarette consumption, but the reduction in consumption would be larger with both tax + health campaign. Nevertheless, using the tax alone to lessen cigarette consumption may not be sufficient as smokers will always look for substitutes to their vice. The ban on smoking in public places has cut the external costs borne by non-smokers. The warnings on cigarette packets have changed some public perceptions. People are not the best judges of their own welfare, so the government intervenes to discourage the production and consumption of demerit goods (cigarettes in this case)-for example age limits for smoking. Advertising ban would be also useful, packaging shouldn’t be attractive for people, cigarettes should be hidden from the view of a consumer, warnings should be everywhere and more influencing. Also it would be good to ban cigarette consumption in pubs, restaurants, clubs and in cars with children. I think that increasing the price of cigarettes is a quite effective policy tool for reducing smoking participation and consumption among youth, young adults and persons of low socioeconomic status. Higher cigarette

Do you smell that? That foul scent mixed into the air. It’s killing you slowly inside, each time you take a breath of this putrid, polluted, dirty scent. You smell it too, the trillions of chemicals racing into your lungs. Now look around yourself, and you’ll see someone smoking on the bench beside you. Smoking is the number one avoidable causes of death. Therefore, smoking should be banned from all public areas. The ban from smoking in public will help to reduce the smokers intake of cigarettes/chemicals, cigarettes themselves are a danger to the earth, some may argue that this ban may damage the economy, and that smoking does not only effect the smoker himself/herself, it effects everyone around them, in many various

To begin with, the first possible explanation for tightening anti-tobacco policies is that tobacco use has a detrimental effect on the users individually. In fact, the smokers jeopardize themselves by absorbing poisonous substances, which are active when ones are smoking. For instance, the chemicals in cigarettes include some in removers such as acetic acid and arsenic. The former is used to remove nail polish and hair dye, whereas the latter can be found in rat poison. Furthermore, methanol, tar and carbon monoxide, which are usually in vehicles’ released fumes, will be active in the smoker’s windpipe and lungs while he or she smokes. It is ironic, but literally the people who smoke are fumigating their respiratory system. Due to such poisonous chemicals, having a regular smoking habit will run higher risks of circulatory, respiratory and mental diseases.

One of the big reasons that smoking should be banned in public is because of how bad it is for people's health. Now obviously the best way to stop smoking from harming people's health would be to ban smoking entirely. However, that is not possible to do that so this is the next best solution. The health of a smoker would be so much better off if thee smoker would only smoke at home. This is because the smoker would not be able to smoke as many cigarettes on a daily basis, and the less a smoker smokes the better off the health of that smoker will be. The reason a persons health will be better off the less they smoke is because smoking is very dangerous for someones health. Smoking is particularly known as being dangerous to one's lungs. Pavitra Sampath states in her article 10 Reasons Smoking Is Bad For You that “cigarettes have a large number of chemicals which leave a considerable amounts of residue in your lungs, airways and your entire body in general. All this residue ends up clogging your lungs, leading to  breathing problems and lowered lung function.” The lungs aren’t the only organs in your body that will get damaged from smoking. Smoking also negatively affects your most important

Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations that prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and other public spaces. It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. However, although it is considered that smoking can be harmful, the effects of banning of smoking should be visualised from both positive and negative dimensions. One of the many parties who will be affected by smoking ban is the country itself, no matter affected in a good or bad way.

Smoking kills more people than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and all other illegal drugs combined, the nicotine inside is very addictive, and smoking also gives many illnesses like breathing problems, bad heart conditions, cancer, and high blood pressure. Tobacco use and its ensuing dependence is a major cause of human mortality and morbidity all over the world. Adverse effects of secondhand smokers’ health have become clear. In today’s world, more place have banned smoking. Smokers, however, have begun to fight back against the increasing number of local laws banning smoking from all public places, even in bars and restaurants. Smokers say that such sweeping bans infringe upon freedom of choice, while the bans’ supporters say that clean air is essential to preserve the health of nonsmokers. People that are around a smoker tend to suffer from secondhand smoking. As the adverse effects of secondhand smoke on nonsmokers’ health have become clear, more places have banned smoking.

Ever since the first Surgeons General’s Report on Smoking and Health in 1964, smoking tobacco has become a major concern all around the globe but especially in the United States. Smoking has harmed and killed many people over the past decades. In fact, “One in every five deaths in the United States is smoking related, making it the largest preventable cause of illness and premature death in the United States”(“State Smoke-Free Laws”). Being that this issue is categorized as a preventable the United States needs to pass nationwide laws restrictions on smoking in public areas. Several countries, including Norway, New Zealand, Uganda, Ireland, Brazil, Bhutan, and Russia have already put a workplace smoking ban into action (Barth). So, the United States are actually behind on passing such laws. As of right now, there haven’t been any nationwide laws restricting where you can smoke (“State Smoke-Free Laws”). Only state laws have been passed to restrict smoking in places like the workplace, bars, and restaurants (“State Smoke-Free Laws”). Only a few states have all three, but others have a combination of either one or two (“State Smoke-Free Laws”). The United States need to pass nationwide laws restricting people from smoking in public because it would increase the health of tobacco smokers, decrease the risk of second-hand smoke, and lessen the air pollution.