Smoking in Public?
Smoking should be banned in Public Places and workplaces. For Centuries, humans have created an addiction to the small “silent” killer called cigarette. Consuming nicotine through regular cigarettes leads to the release of chemical dopamine in the human brain which motivates you to repeat the specific behaviour such as smoking cigarettes over and over.
So, I've noticed that some of the students in the school smoke and vape, which might affect their health and academic performance.
In my speech, I'll talk about the difficulties that smoking has produced in our environment and our health , as well as how it affects other people.
Tobacco smoking is the single best public health threat the world is currently facing. It is one of the leading causes of death from cancer, lung and heart diseases. Over the course of the 20th century, it killed approximately 100 million people, most of them in high-income countries. Smoking increases the risk of diseases of the urinary tract, pelvis, bladder and digestive tract. According to the global burden of disease, more than 8 million people died prematurely due to smoking in 2017. Although people know how unhealthy it can be, they still prefer to smoke, claiming it gives them a sense of pleasure and reduces stress and anxiety.
What exactly is secondhand smoke? Is it possible that it will harm your health? Will your children be affected by secondhand smoke? Yes, it is correct. Smoking in public can lead to a variety of health problems. People smoke throughout the world, and the smell of smoke has become so ingrained that some people do not even perceive it. Nonsmokers have a higher risk of lung cancer and stroke, according to statistics.
Do people know second hand smoke not only affects the person smoking, but it also affects the people around them? Scientific evidence shows that smoking is not only harmful to smokers, but also to those around them.
The negative effects of smoking in public places can be tangible, measurable, and sometimes even permanent effects extend into other people's lives. Secondhand smoke exposure is clearly linked with negative outcomes on a person’s health. According to the state of Michigan , secondhand smoke can trigger breathing problems, headaches and other severe health problems in nonsmokers. Children with asthma around secondhand smoke have more severe and frequent asthma attacks, which can put a child's life in danger. Even for people without breathing conditions, breathing secondhand smoke for a brief period can be deadly. The result is that secondhand smoke has numerous short term and long term consequences for innocent bystanders.
Did you know that smoking cigarettes contributes to earth's pollution? Thousands of smokers don't think twice about leaving a trail of cigarette litter behind them. Despite the fact that smoking has decreased, cigarettes seem to be everywhere, scattered along green spaces, sidewalks, roadsides, beaches, waterways, virtually everywhere we go. As a result, it's somewhat unsurprising that cigarettes are the most littered object on the planet. Every year, over 4.5 trillion cigarettes are discarded throughout the world. Here are the basics about the environmental impact of cigarette butts.
How much litter is from cigarettes?
Cigarettes make up more than one third, nearly 38 percent, of all collected litter. Disposing of cigarettes on the ground or out of a car is so common that 75 percent of smokers report it. Most cigarette filters which look like cotton are actually a form of plastic called cellulose acetate. By itself, cellulose acetate is very slow to degrade in our environment, which can take 18 month to 10 years to decompose.
From my perspective, smoking should be prohibited in community and public places though it's such a hard step to tackle, especially when the number of users is in the billions. So if you're planning to smoke because your friend does it and people think it's cool, never think about it. Everything about cigarettes endangers life on our beautiful planet.
