Reiterating The Dangers Of Smoking And Secondhand Smoke

Did you know that 3,000 American non-smokers will die this year from lung cancer? Those deaths are entirely preventable. Their lung cancer is caused by second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is smoke they have breathed in from other people's cigarettes. It is also known as involuntary or passive smoking. There is nothing passive however about the effects of this smoke. It is lethal and it is dangerous. It may give as many as 300,000 children under the age of one and half bronchitis and pneumonia. It could even be responsible for more than 35,000 deaths from heart disease.

Dr. David L. Katz, A clinical professor of public health, and director of the prevention research center at Yale University School of Medicine expresses his opinion on public smoking in the following passage.

The essay “Thank You for Smoking,” written by Peter Brimelow, is far from an influential essay on why people should smoke. Through this essay, Brimelow makes an effort to convince the audience smoking is actually beneficial to your health. I find it hard for people to write about what they think are the benefits of smoking when there are so many obvious reasons why you should not smoke.

in order to sustain a healthier life style. This essay seeks to illustrate the impact of smoking on a

People that smoke are the people that get all the unhealthy stuff in a body like cancer and many diseases that can be caused.“If smoking persists at the current rate among young adults in this country, 5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are projected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. Another 100,000 were babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (often referred to as SIDS) or complications from prematurity, low birth weight, or other conditions caused by parental smoking, particularly smoking by the mother. “Smoking has been around for a long time. The problem with smoking became worse when “production climbed markedly when another cigarette-making machine was developed in the 1880s by James Albert Bonsack, which vastly increased the productivity of cigarette companies, which went from making about 40,000 hand-rolled cigarettes daily to around 4 million.” Smoking is a problem around the world because it causes lung cancer, many other cancers, and some horrible diseases. This problem should be solved because “More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history.”

Thesis Statement: Even though some people think smoking is in style, people should stop smoking because smoking affect a smoker, but not only that it affect the non-smoker as well.

Therefore, in a free society, whether smoking harms others or not is irrelevant. The relevant issue is who owns the air? It is clear that if you own the air, it is your right to decide how it is used. If you do not want tobacco smoke in your air, that is your right that government should protect. By the same token, if I own the air, I have rights just as you do to decide how it is used. If I want to have tobacco smoke in my air, I have every right to do so and the

The advocates of the smoking bans point at the societal and individual damage caused by smoking. The justification in their eyes for such ban is that smoking harms individuals’ health and passive inhaling the smoke causes serious health issues. They also emphasize a vital role of a government to protect its citizens’ health and well-being. Apart from that, the supporters mention large public and private spending from tax-payers money related to health issues caused by secondhand smoke. Despite of possible benefits, the regulation remains controversial in the US with only 8 states having such bans. The opponents of smoking bans in private cars with minors refuse the governmental control over behavior in a private property. They are against the violation of property rights and also against control of autonomy. According to the opponents, citizens should be responsible for their own health and should have freedom to make their own heath decision for themselves and their children. They refuse the paternalistic role of the state, however do not fully deny the paternalistic roles

When one’s individual freedom connotes sacrificing that of a fellow human being’s health then that freedom needs to be restricted. People in the United States of America have the additional right to choose to engage in healthy habits and avoid the damaging ones. Thus, if an individual is fixed on being selfish and performs poor habits near these people such as smoking and driving a pollutant vehicle, then that liberty should cease to exist.

Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and about 70 that can cause cancer (Smoking & Tobacco Use). Secondhand smoke can be especially harmful to your children's health because their lungs are still developing and introducing such toxins to their lungs can cause serious damage. This PSA, created by the National Health Service, is hoping to reach parents who are smokers and eliminate the harm caused to children by the effects of secondhand smoke. The use of pathos is exemplified in this PSA because there is an emotional message around harming children. Not only harmfulness to children is being showcased but also the harmer is identified as a caregiver to the child. Logos is displayed in the text and statistics provide to support the message. This PSA uses a mixture of pathos and logos to convey a powerful message that secondhand smoke is harmful to your child.

A cigarette does not only shorten your life by puff, but also the life of your child. The use of tobacco "remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States” causing more than 440,000 deaths each year and resulting in an annual cost of more than $75 billion in medical expenses, says David Marks in his novel, Overcoming Your Smoking Habits. Nonetheless, what is not discussed is secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, also known as chronic lower respiratory disease. Secondhand smoke can affect a child mentally and physically, from diseases to learning disabilities, and post-traumatic stress. Children from birth to seven years of age are especially vulnerable to secondhand smoke because their lungs are not fully developed. (Marks 3)

This paper seeks to convince the audience to stop smoking; furthermore, it empathize the negative aspects of smoking. In addition, this paper will also reiterate the positive effects of not smoking. The Christopher LaClair states that the Center of Disease Control reported that 443,000 individual died from smoking and related diseaes. LeClair’s objective is to persuade you quit smoking, and to surround yourself with a support network of friends and family. The speaker addressed his topic fluently and coherently throughout his speech; therefore, LaClair made strong statements supported by facts.

I stumbled out of a building, coughing and wheezing, smoke filled my eyes and lungs. I pulled my tie frantically, my head beating as I ran out the entryway. I was having my supper when a refined man at the table decided to light a cigarette. The smoke went directly to my face and lungs, suddenly, I could not inhale, my chest hurt and I froze.

In this set of materials, the reading passage describes a point of view that support the liberty to smoke, and the listening passage explains points against the freedom for smoking. According to the reading passage, the public policy that does not allow people to smoke in some places causes negative impacts. The reduction of profits in bars and restaurants is an example. Additionally, the freedom that the American people every time achieve is prejudiced. In the listening passage, the professor is vehemently against the freedom for smoking because several reasons. First of all, smoking causes healthy problems linked to lungs and heart diseases. Secondly, bars and restaurants can achieve profits if they attract non smoking people. Finally,

For a country in our financial position the general health of Scotland is very poor. In some areas the average life expectancy is as low as 54 years old for men. A major cause of this is smoking. With the young in particular smoking is much more popular than it used to be. In October 2008, it was estimated that one third of 16-24 year olds smoke. This figure is at a 10 year high. In between the ages of 16-19 it is found that girls are more likely to smoke than boys.