Smoking In California

California has led the country in anti-smoking laws with the passage in 1976 of The California Indoor Clean Air Act of 1976. It declared smoke a hazard to the general public and limited the areas in which people could smoke in public buildings and outdoors spaces. California code Section 5148 prohibits smoking in the workplace; this includes any enclosed space at a place of employment.

One of the largest and most problematic health issues in our society is smoking. Smoking is currently the leading cause of death in our country, due to its harmful and addicting contents, such as nicotine and tobacco. Although millions die from it each year, smoking is the single most preventable cause of death as well. Without smoking, a tremendous amount of money and lives will be saved. I think that our country should ban smoking and the production of cigarettes in order to maintain a healthier nation, help save the environment, and prevent the almost 1000 deaths that they cause in fires each year.

Since the passage of the California Tobacco Health Protection Act, the smoking rates among California adults have decreased by 42%. From 1990 to 1993, the smoking rates among the youth population for those ages 12 to 17 dropped down to 9.1%. From 1989 to 1993, Proposition 99 helped in the reduction of cigarette consumption by 802 million packs of cigarettes. The smoking prevalence in adults has also decreased from 26.7% in 1988 to 15.5% during the first half of 1995 (Cokkinides et al., 2009). Hence, cigarette consumption and smoking prevalence rapidly declined after the implementation of Proposition 99.

It was in 1964 that the Surgeon General of the United States first published a report on the ill-effects of smoking cigarettes, and within a year the first law requiring health warnings on cigarette packages was in effect. From that point, the government has slowly, but continually, imposed more and more restrictions on the use of tobacco products. Throughout the 1960s, 70's, 80's, and 90's, the both individual jurisdictions within the State of California, as well as the entire state, continued to impose tougher and tougher restrictions on smoking cigarettes until 1994, when California became the first state in the union to pass a law which completely prohibited smoking in most enclosed workplaces. ("Secondhand Smoke Exposure") This law, which took effect in 1998, restricted smoking in all enclosed places of employment including offices, factories, bars and restaurants. But by the early 21st century, the current restrictions were not enough for California's lawmakers and a push was started to ban smoking in all public places. Since the passage of these restrictions in the 1990's, there has been a great deal of change in the state with advocates of the smoking ban pointing to the increased health benefits for the citizens of the state, while opponents focus on the economic damaged in the business community caused by the restrictions. It is therefore necessary to examine the State of California and its ban on smoking and how it has

Smoking does effect your lung. All the smoke people know smoking is affect their lung. If they still keep smoking, their lung will get sick. People cannot really touch their lung, so they do

In November of 2006 Ohio put a ban on smoking cigarettes in all public places. The ban was put in place to protect people from the effects of second hand smoke. Some of these effects include, heart disease, cancer and other dangerous diseases. Ohio was the first tobacco growing state that implemented this kind of ban. According to the Ohio Department of Health's website, about 280,000 public places and places of employment were affected by this ban and no longer would they be exposed to second hand smoke.

Smoking is the inhalation and exhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco. Historically, it was thought that smoking was harmless, but more modern, clinical and laboratory research proves that it is, in fact, extremely dangerous. Tobacco cigarettes should be illegal in the United States due to their plethora of negative effects on the population and the environment. If cigarettes were banned, the country would be a much better place. Pollution, diseases and fatalities would dramatically decrease, while productivity, financial stability and overall health would increase.

Smoking is harming you. All that smoke is going into your lungs and damaging them. Not only does it damage your lungs, it goes into your bloodstream and spreads all throughout your body, hurting almost every organ in your body. Your lungs, heart, brains, sexual organs, and more are all damaged through smoking. Your lungs have an increased chance in getting lung cancer, your heart has an increased chance in getting a heart attack, your brain has an increased chance in getting a stroke, and you have an increased chance of having a terrible sexual life. You also have a chance of ruining your voice, your skin,

After the law for not smoking in public has passed, many states in America have been applying and strictly following it. California is one of the state that highly promote this policy in most common public areas. As a Pasadena City College student, I strongly agree with the school’s no-smoking policy because of the effects in dental health problems, expensive cost and second hand smoke issue.

Cigarettes should be illegal because it harms you by raising the risk of lung cancer. It causes lung cancer by affecting the lungs. If you're new to smoking and you stop your body may be able to fix this damage. If you keep doing it repeatedly you can end up with cancer. Smoking harms pregnant females by doubling

Everyone agrees that smoking is bad, so why is it legal? Cigarettes are bought by many people because of an addiction. Cigarettes are, but many people smoke a cigarette just to try and become hooked on this horrid, body destroying substances. These people try to quit but cigarettes can create an addiction and a habit that cannot be broken easily. These are some reasons why cigarettes should be outlawed.

smokers may not realize how secondhand smoke is very dangerous and life threatening. Although the person may not be the one actually smoking their still inhaling the smoke which is what second hand smoke is. It is something that in most cases for younger children are unintentionally, but happens anyway. Since second hand smoke is a known cancer causing agent the more secondhand smokers the higher the risks for more health issues. Not only does smoking affect the main stream, but the side stream as well which the both of them are slowly wearing their lungs and other body parts down.

Like most people, you already know that smoking is bad for your health. But do you really understand just how dangerous smoking really is? Smoking and use of tobacco products, including cigars and smokeless tobacco, cause or worsen numerous diseases and conditions (American Lung Association, 2016). There are just around 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, and 4,000 chemicals in one cigarette. There are many reasons why smoking should be banned in the United States.

Cigarette smoking has become quite common in today’s world with an estimated nearly 42.1 million Americans smoking on a daily basis (Center for Disease Control, 2014). Smoking can be detrimental to a person’s health, as well as doing damage to the environment. Smoking is in no one’s best interest, and for that reason, smoking should be banned in the United States.

@In America there are few topics which the general public has both fought against and supported for an elongated period of time such as the one of smoking laws. Back in 1964 the first surgeon general’s report on the adverse effects of smoking was published (1). Only a year had passed since the reports was published when the first law was set in place, the (cigarette labeling and advertising act of 1965) was the first of many laws that would be passed over the last 60 years (1). By 1971 the surgeon general had proposed a federal ban in public places followed by a report in 1972 that talked about the effects of secondhand smoke (1). Arizona was the first state to restrict smoking in public places but was soon followed by Connecticut and Minnesota. A few years later in 1986 the surgeon general released a report which focused on the consequences of secondhand smoke the report claimed that secondhand smoke was the cause of lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. That same year the national research council issued a report on health consequences of involuntary smoking, as a result the American’s for nonsmokers rights became a national group. By January of 2014, 28 states had enacted statewide bans on smoking in all public places, with a few exceptions such as bars or other such places but there are laws that prohibit smoking in all 50 states in one form or another. Currently the limitations of where one may smoke are not the only laws that have been set in place. Currently tobacco is