Indoor smoking ban

Thesis Statement

Causing more than 400,000 deaths each year, smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Additionally, the direct medical costs amount more than $50 billion per year.

Introduction

Indoor Smoking should be completely banned on the basis of public health. A current report estimates that 95% of office workers exposed to passive smoking or smoking environment exceed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's noteworthy jeopardy level for heart disease mortality, and 60% surpass noteworthy jeopardy for lung cancer mortality. (Jennifer, 123-125)

Every time someone lights up a cigarette, cigar, or pipe, tobacco smoke enters the air from two sources. The first is “mainstream smoke”, which the smoker pulls by way of the mouthpiece when he inhales or puffs. Nonsmokers are also vulnerable to mainstream smoke after the smoker blows it. The second and even more dangerous source is “side stream smoke” which goes immediately into the air from the burning tobacco. In the context, inhalation of someone else's cigarette smoke is called “passive smoking or secondhand smoke” and it affects the nonsmoker. (Shenk, 56)

At the current level of unobstructed smoking in 25% of office workplaces, yearly estimates are 4,000 heart disease and 400 lung cancer deaths amid office workers open to the elements to ETS.

Children are among the most badly affected by disclosure to smoking environment, being at augmented jeopardy of inferior respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis. EPA estimates that inert smoking is accountable for amid 150,000 and 300,000 lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children below 18 months of age yearly, ensuing in between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations per year.

Discussion

People who are exposed to smoking environment are moreover more probable to have condensed lung function and symptoms of respiratory irritation like cough, excess phlegm, and wheeze. Passive smoking can also escort to an increase of liquid in the middle ear.

Cigarette smoke contains over 4,700 chemicals, over 200 poisons, and over 50 human carcinogens. The toxins in cigarette smoke include carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and methyl- isocyanides. The cigarette smoke contains nitrosamines, which cause cancer of the lung, respiratory system, and other organs; aromatic amines, which lead to the bladder and breast cancer; formaldehyde, which bring about nasal cancer; and benzene, which induce leukemia. In the environmental protection terms, the second-hand smoke or indoor smoking is the single most crucial cause of indoor air pollution. (Andrews, 11)

In addition to causing disease, indoor smoking may result in increased number of pre-existing health conditions, like some allergies, asthma, bronchitis, other respiratory ailments, and heart disease. (Hales, 14-16)Also, in some of the cases, exposure to passive smoking can stimulate severe, even life-threatening backlash in individuals who suffer from these environmental factors. Individuals whose previous medical history makes them notably susceptible to passive smoking are effectively impeded from working in or condescending enclosed indoor places where smoking is allowed, or do so only at substantial risk to their health.

Experience to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) has been associated to a diversity of unpleasant health results. Many are ...