Secondhand Smoke

One anti-smoking poster shows merely a pair of hands holding a revolver. Instead of bullets the hands are using cigarettes to load the weapon. Listed in small print on one side of the poster are numerous conditions that may be related to smoking, such as fatal heart attacks, emphysema, cancer, and gum disease. The phrase “Smoking kills… so why bother starting” is printed in large font at the bottom of the poster. The message of this poster is clear: Don’t Smoke. The poster is trying to portray that smoking is like holding a loaded weapon. Just as someone would be endangering their life with the loaded gun, they would also be endangering their life with the use of cigarettes. The consequences and health issues associated with smoking can be just as deadly as those of the gun. Ultimately, if someone smokes they are putting their life at risk. Therefore, the logical act is to never start smoking.

The image of how many lives affected by smoking can be a difficult one to capture properly. The image of people who are living their lives slowly becoming the worthless smoke of just another cigarette can cause the viewer, perhaps for the first time, to see clearly that the effects of smoking can go further than they first thought. While lighting a cigarette, it is doubtful the average smoker thinks much about the damage done, not only to themselves, but to those around them as well. Your public service message implies that the second hand smoke the average smoker exhales so easily is just as damaging to those nearby as to the person smoking. This may be difficult to imagine, but the fact still stands that with every puff, with every breath out damage can be inadvertently done to a hapless bystander.

Throughout this, the advertisement will reveal the danger of smoking cigarettes and promote smokers to quit. The ad was created to invoke a response from its audience which is smokers and non-smokers. In the non-smoking audience, the ad will try to decrease their compulsion to smoke. After witnessing the anti-smoking commercial and seeing the harmful health conditions former smokers are in, non-smokers shouldn’t want to be in that position. Others may feel as if this ad doesn’t concern them because they don’t smoke or it has little to no effect on their lives. This group may also feel that this video should convince smokers to want to quit, but it’s most likely not the case. To smokers, the image will only remind them of what harm they’re doing to their bodies. Smokers would also become apathetic to the commercial because they’re already informed about the consequences and addiction of smoking. Smokers may also look at the advertisement as a personal attack simply because smoking is viewed as such a bad thing in the United

Smoking is harmful, and this visual text will impact others in multiple different ways, depending on who the person is. For a smoker, it may lead them to quit because they don't want to be slowly killing those around them. Additionally, it could lead them to quit smoking around others. When they smoke around others, not only are they putting themselves at risk, they are putting others around them at risk too. In fact, there are over 7,300 deaths caused by lung cancer in non-smokers each year.

Heather* had never touched a cigarette in her entire life. She lived in a house with non-smoking parents, and was never exposed to significant amounts of tobacco in her youth. However, Heather spent a good deal of her early adult life with chain-smoking companions in smoke-filled bars and clubs.

Every day in America families’ gathers together to celebrate special events or the accomplishments of one of its members. Many times these special moments can be ruined or brought to an abrupt end due to others nearby smoking. Public spaces should be safe and accessible to all members of society to use without the inconvenience of someone else’s smoking ruining their outing or causing health issues to flare up such as, asthma. People do have the right to choose to smoke if they desire, but nonsmokers have the right to go out to public places with their family and not be exposed to harmful secondhand smoke. Studies have shown that secondhand smoke is just as harmful as smoking and leads to a higher occurrence of cancer and heart disease. Furthermore,

Some time ago while I could sit in my auto, holding up to lift my little girl from her grade school, and I could take a snappy drag from a cigarette and nobody would take a second look. While I do concede that it is vital for me to roll the windows down, along these lines discharging the result of my lone wellspring of joy into the lungs of youthful youngsters, I should essentially say that I don't trust that second-hand smoke truly is harmful, regardless of the possibility that each and every researcher in the whole world says something else. Sometime in the past I could smoke a cigarette when the evangelist's sermon continued for a really long time, or he talked about a transgression I myself had submitted, in this way bothering me. I could

Children are at greater risk of being exposed to secondhand smoke than adults (CDC, 2004)

What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke is a mixture of the smoke from an actively burning cigarette and can also be the smoke exhaled from a smoker. There are two different types of secondhand smoke: Side stream smoke which comes directly from burning tobacco and also Mainstream smoke which is the smoke that the person smoking inhales. Although the smoke that the smoker inhales is very dangerous and harmful to the body, the smoke off of a burning cigarette actually contains more harmful substances due to the smoke not being filtered when coming off of the end of the cigarette. The people being harmed the most by secondhand smoke happens to be children. Children have no choice but to endure the secondhand smoke coming off of their

This advertisement was clearly designed to conjure a response from its audience, which are both smokers and non-smokers alike. In the non-smoking audience, the image will either increase their distaste of smoking and its negative health effects, or they will be unconcerned because it has little or no effect on them or their lives. The audience it would appeal most to is the people who vehemently oppose cigarettes and smoking. People like this may believe that anti-smoking ads will reach smokers and somehow convince them to quit, but this is probably not the case. To smokers, the image will be a reminder of the harm they are doing to their bodies. But for the most part, they will likely be indifferent to the image because they already know it’s bad for their health, and will continue to smoke because they are either addicted or are just apathetic to the situation. They may even find ads such as this obnoxious and unoriginal because they feel as if it’s repetitive and a personal attack on them and their views and habits. Because smoking is seen as such a bad thing in U.S. society, they may detach themselves from advertisements that contradict what they believe is okay.

Second hand smoke is not only unpleasant to be around, but can also cause both long and short term health complications. Long term complications can include a plethora of cancers and emphysema. Smoking and second hand smoke have been shown to contribute to not only lung cancer, but also breast, colon, throat, pancreatic and other types of cancers. Short term effects can include allergic reactions such as shortness of breath and watery, itchy eyes. For someone with asthma, being exposed to second hand smoke can be deadly.

People smoke at different ages in their lives. Whether it was when they were a teenager or an adult. They didn't being to smoke because they wanted to, it was because they were probably influenced by their parents, grandparents, brothers, or sisters while they were younger and they thought it was a good thing because all of his/ her family did it.

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It is critical to protect students and employees of universities from exposure to the perilous effects of secondhand smoke. Efforts such as easily ignored “no smoking” signs or free Nicotine patches are not as effective as anticipated; one must be motivated to quit smoking in order to actually quit. Therefore, actions must be taken in order to efficiently transition into a tobacco free campus and ultimately salvage the health of both smokers and nonsmokers on campus. By fall 2015, this university will transition to a Tobacco Free Campus, which means that anyone who comes onto school grounds is prohibited from using tobacco products to provide a healthy, safe educational setting and workplace for both students and employees. With that said, the university is adopting a method introduced by the American Cancer Society called "The Great American Smokeout." However, the event will be renamed “Cut the Cancer Stick.”

Ever since the 1960s, when cigarettes were deemed unhealthy, there has been constant effort to educate people on the tragic effects of smoking. It seems that one cannot go a day without hearing about how cigarettes are harmful. Some people are even victims of secondhand smoke on a daily basis. To some, the constant reminder that cigarettes are bad is a nuisance. To others, it can be a helpful way to prevent them from smoking. However, commercials and warning labels are not enough to protect people from the danger. The United States government should establish an indoor smoking ban on all tobacco products including electronic cigarettes and vapor pens. This ban is necessary to stop secondhand smoke from harming people, non-smokers would not