By Hannah Zornow
Did you know that 480,000 people die from smoking each year and 41,000 people die each year from second hand smoke? Per day, 1,300 people die from smoking or second hand smoke! Smoking should be banned in public because it would lower healthcare costs and it would make the world a healthier place for the smokers and the non-smokers.
Smoking should be banned in public because healthcare costs would decrease. According to Patricia M. Herman, in Arizona after smoking was banned in the state, hospital admissions for second hand smoke exposure, angina, stroke and asthma attacks all went down by a significant amount. In some places in the United States, Germany and New Zealand heart attack hospitalizations fell an average of 15%, stroke hospitalizations fell 16% and respiratory disease fell 24% after communities passed banning laws in restaurants, bars and workplaces. According to Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, in 2002 a law banning smoking in public restaurants in Olmsted County had no effect on heart attacks, but in 2007 the heart attack rate fell by 33% after they expanded the smoking ban to bars and workplaces. Not just restaurants. A ban in smoking in Germany saved nearly $7 million dollars that humans would have had to spend if the ban was not put into place. If everybody stopped smoking, they would have a lot more money in the end because they didn’t have to pay hospital bills when they needed new lungs or for when they needed cancer treatment.
Smoking should also be banned because it doesn’t just affect the smokers body, but the people around that person’s bodies. According to the past president of the American Heart Association, Raymond Gibbons, says that if a smoker is around somebody that has an underlying heart disease that could start a heart attack. In just five minutes second hand smoke can get into and affect a non-smokers blood vessels. According to a website, WebMd, children that are exposed to second hand smoke can be exposed to these conditions: sudden infant death syndrome, more respiratory infections (bronchitis and pneumonia), more severe and frequent asthma attacks, ear infections and a chronic cough. According to the American Cancer Society second hand smoke causes cancer, because it has more than 7,000 chemicals and up to 70 of those can cause cancer. They also said that second hand smoke leads to many mental and emotional changes, as well as leading to depression in some cases. Smoking may be bad for that
the people that are actually smoking, but it can also be as bad or even worse for the people around them.
Smoking should be banned in public because it would lower healthcare costs and it would make the world a healthier place for the smokers and non-smokers. Yes, smokers have the right to smoke in public but don’t non-smokers have the right to stay healthy too? Is it better to feed someone's addiction to nicotine or keep everyone else healthy?
Smoking should be banned in public because healthcare costs would decrease. According to Patricia M. Herman, in Arizona after smoking was banned in the state, hospital admissions for second hand smoke exposure, angina, stroke and asthma attacks all went down by a significant amount. In some places in the United States, Germany and New Zealand heart attack hospitalizations fell an average of 15%, stroke hospitalizations fell 16% and respiratory disease fell 24% after communities passed banning laws in restaurants, bars and workplaces. According to Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, in 2002 a law banning smoking in public restaurants in Olmsted County had no effect on heart attacks, but in 2007 the heart attack rate fell by 33% after they expanded the smoking ban to bars and workplaces. Not just restaurants. A ban in smoking in Germany saved nearly $7 million dollars that humans would have had to spend if the ban was not put into place. If everybody stopped smoking, they would have a lot more money in the end because they didn’t have to pay hospital bills when they needed new lungs or for when they needed cancer treatment.
Smoking should also be banned because it doesn’t just affect the smokers body, but the people around that person’s bodies. According to the past president of the American Heart Association, Raymond Gibbons, says that if a smoker is around somebody that has an underlying heart disease that could start a heart attack. In just five minutes second hand smoke can get into and affect a non-smokers blood vessels. According to a website, WebMd, children that are exposed to second hand smoke can be exposed to these conditions: sudden infant death syndrome, more respiratory infections (bronchitis and pneumonia), more severe and frequent asthma attacks, ear infections and a chronic cough. According to the American Cancer Society second hand smoke causes cancer, because it has more than 7,000 chemicals and up to 70 of those can cause cancer. They also said that second hand smoke leads to many mental and emotional changes, as well as leading to depression in some cases. Smoking may be bad for that
the people that are actually smoking, but it can also be as bad or even worse for the people around them.
Smoking should be banned in public because it would lower healthcare costs and it would make the world a healthier place for the smokers and non-smokers. Yes, smokers have the right to smoke in public but don’t non-smokers have the right to stay healthy too? Is it better to feed someone's addiction to nicotine or keep everyone else healthy?