In a normal cigarette, there is in total 4,000 chemicals found in the cigarette smoke, this is one of the many reasons to why one in three people who smoke die before their 65th birthday.
The three chemicals that are most commonly known of are; Tar which is used for road making, Carbon Monoxide, which is car exhaust fumes, and Nicotine, which is an insecticide. Out of the 4,000 chemicals there are in the smoke these three have a very large affect on the body. The tar is what coats the lining of the lungs making them less able to take in oxygen; it also contains carcinogens, which is the fundamental cause of cancer. The Carbon Monoxide is a poisoness gas that joins up with the red blood cells making them incapable of transporting oxygen around the body. And lastly the Nicotine is the addictive drug which raises the heart beat, narrows the arteries causing high blood pressure, which in most cases leads to heart disease. Already these three chemicals have a vast affect on the health of any person. So if people do smoke and have to then why should those that don’t smoke have to be affected as well by these toxic chemicals?
Smokers aren’t always aware of what damage they are doing both to themselves and the others around them. Is it fair to bring up children around in a smoking environment? Well in some cases this is inevitable. Parents who smoke may be strongly addicted and may have tried giving up already, might not be able to help bringing their children up in a smoke filled environment, however it is extremely unfair that a young person who is healthy and very able at sport for example should be affected by having to breathe in their parents cigarette smoke, and risk the worsening of both existing health problems as well as introducing them at a very early age and possibly developing into something as serious as cancer or heart disease over the years.
In some countries, for example Australia and New Zealand, smoking has already been banned from public places and is having a good affect on reducing the amount of people who are dying from passive smoking. I think that these two countries should encourage other cities and countries to ban smoking in public places as well and prove that with this ban, there will be a decrease in the number of diseases and deaths from passive smoking. But not only is it that adults are smoking, but more recently teenagers or children from a very early age are actually smoking, some probably knowing the few short – term affects of it but not realising what the long term affects of smoking are.
In conclusion, not only will the ban of smoking in public places benefit the non – smokers or those suffering from passive smoking, the smokers can also be satisfied with doing it in another enclosed environment away from others. I think this is a good idea because; currently we are nowhere near banning smoking completely. So for a temporary solution to reduce health problems for passive smoking, the ban will help to isolate the smokers and then possibly leading up to smokers having to give up when maybe the day that cigarettes are banned completely.
