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Smoking Statistics in China – Smoking Statistics
Smoking Statistics in China Added 29 of July 2009 (1084 views)
1. In China approximately two thirds of men smoke, however, only 4% of women smoke.
2. 33% of the the total number of cigarettes smoked each year are smoked in China, making China one of the world’s largest consumers of cigarettes. Given China’s population, the number of smokers in China is estimated to be above 300 million, which is approximately the United States population.
Smoking in Public Places, to Ban or Not to Ban?
Smoking in public places has become a big issue in today’s society. Many people are up in arms about the subject and people on both sides of the argument feel that the subject is unfair and unjust. Banning smoking in public places is arguably unfair to smokers and takes away from their freedom; on the other hand however not banning it is unfair to the nonsmokers and puts our health in danger making it unsafe for us to go to public places where there are smokers. I do understand that smokers have certain rights here in the United States. We claim to be a nation of freedom and equality so therefore I understand the point of view of smokers that not allowing them to smoke in public is taking away their freedom. However do nonsmokers not have the right to their health? Do nonsmokers not have the right to clean air? Do nonsmokers not have the right to be able to go to public places without being suffocated by cigarette smoke?
Secondhand smoke is the smoke that is given off when burning a pipe, cigar, or cigarette mixed with the smoke that is exhaled from the lungs of smokers. Just a few of the 250 dangerous, toxic, cancer causing chemicals in secondhand smoke include formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chloride, arsenic, ammonia, and hydrogen cyanide. All of these chemicals are extremely dangerous poisons and would never enter the body where it not for breathing secondhand smoke. Avoiding secondhand smoke is very hard because about one in four people smoke.
Secondhand smoke is very dangerous for many different reasons and it has been proven that it is more dangerous than smoking a cigarette yourself. There are many health factors that come along with secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke causes irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat. It also irritates the lungs and causes coughing and chest discomfort as well as excessive phlegm. There have also been cases where some people will break out in hives when exposed to it. The dangerous chemicals that are in secondhand smoke cause many different diseases and health issues and are the basis behind the raise for concern.
Russia adopts smoking kills cigarette warnings
Russia adopts “smoking kills” cigarette warnings
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia slapped “smoking kills” warnings on cigarette packages from Saturday in an effort to crack down on an addiction kills up to 500,000 people a year and is on the rise.
Why smoking in public places should be banned
My cousin died three years ago from second hand smoking. Her fault? Working in an office full of smokers. The smokers are still around, she is dead after being bedridden with a pitiful, metastasizing and deadly lung cancer.
My answer to the debate if smoking in public places should be allowed comes loud and clear. Smoking should not only be prohibited but rather strictly prohibited from any public place.
We live in a civilized world where any harm done to another person will result with a penalty. Lets look at it this way, a man is driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs. Everybody knows that his driving is potentially going to injure or kill an innocent on the street. So what happens? Due to the danger involved, driving under the influence is prohibited and stiff penalties as a consequence will arise.
Report: Nationwide smoking ban would reduce heart attacks
“Comprehensive smoking bans have been implemented in some states, but not in every state,” noted lead researcher Dr. Mouaz Al-Mallah, co-director of Cardiac Imaging Research at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Currently, 39 states have some type of public smoking bans, with 26 banning smoking in any enclosed public space, while 11 states have no bans at all.
Based on the finding, Al-Mallah said that he would “encourage all states to institute a ban on smoking in public place to protect people from secondhand smoke. Authorities should do everything possible to prevent healthy individuals from being exposed to secondhand smoke, and one of the ways is by passing such laws. ”
Bollywood Blamed for Teenage Smoking
India’s lavish and gushingly romantic Bollywood movies may be the world’s most watched but they are also, it now appears, bad for your health.
Three out of four films produced by India’s prolific film industry over the past decade show their stars smoking, according to a new World Health Organisation survey. Teenagers who watch Bollywood characters smoke are three times as likely to do so themselves.
If young people see one of their idols light up on screen they are 16 times more likely to think positively about smoking, the survey found.
Passive Smoking
What is Passive Smoking Breathing of smoke caused by someone else is known as passive smoking. It is also known as involuntary smoking or second hand smoking. Second hand smoke is also called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
In passive smoking, the person is forced to breathe ‘sidestream smoke’ from the burning tip of a cigarette / cigar / pipe, and ‘mainstream’ smoke which is inhaled and then exhaled by the active smoker.
Today secondhand smoke is one of the major sources of indoor air pollution.
Secondhand Smoke: Questions and Answers
Many state and local governments have passed laws prohibiting smoking in public facilities such as schools, hospitals, airports, and bus terminals. Increasingly, state and local governments are also requiring private workplaces, including restaurants and bars, to be smoke free. To highlight the significant risk from secondhand smoke exposure, the National Cancer Institute, a component of the National Institutes of Health, holds meetings and conferences in states, counties, cities, or towns that are smoke free, unless certain circumstances justify an exception to this policy.
Polite ways to get smokers to stop smoking near you
For non-smokers, there are few things worse than inhaling second-hand smoke from other people who choose to indulge in this habit. It smells terribly offensive, getting on their clothing and in their hair. There are also health consequences to breathing in second-hand smoke that can be extremely detrimental to the non-smoker. For various reasons, most people do not like to have cigarette smoke close to them, especially when they themselves have chosen not to be smokers.
The problem that some people have is that the smoker(s) may very well be people that you are close to and care about. They may be your friends or family members and you don’t want to offend them, but you really don’t want to inhale their exhaled smoke, either. There are polite ways that you can let these people know that you would rather they smoke when they around you. Some are quite direct, while others are more of a hint or a clue that most people will pick up on rather quickly.
The most direct approach, certainly, is to simply come right out and let the person know that you don’t like them smoking around you. The key to effectively communicating this without offending the person is to stay away from words that have a negative connotation. These would include such verbage as, “stink, smelly, gross, disgusting, etc.” that may be what you are thinking, but shouldn’t be what you are saying.
Smoking ban
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, which prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and/or other public spaces. Legislation may also define smoking as more generally being the carrying or possessing of any lit tobacco product.[1]
- 1 Rationale
- 2 Medical and scientific basis for bans
- 2.1 Air quality
- 2.2 Public Health Law Research
- 3 History
- 4 Cigarette advertising
- 5 Public support for smoking bans
- 6 Effects of bans
- 6.1 Safety issues and effects on mental health
- 6.2 Effects on health
- 6.3 Effects on tobacco use
- 6.4 Effects on businesses
- 6.4.1 Australia
- 6.4.2 Germany
- 6.4.3 Ireland
- 6.4.4 United Kingdom
- 6.4.5 United States
- 6.5 Effects on musical instruments
- 6.6 Effects on tourism
- 6.7 Effects of prison smoking bans
- 6.8 Compliance
- 7 Criticism of bans
- 7.1 Government interference with personal lifestyle or property rights
- 7.2 Lawsuits
- 7.3 Bans may move smoking elsewhere
- 7.4 Local bans may lead to increase in DUI fatalities
- 7.5 Effects of funding on research literature
- 8 Alternatives to bans
- 8.1 Incentives for voluntarily smoke-free establishments
- 8.2 Tradable smoking pollution permits
- 8.3 Ventilation
- 9 Preemption
- 10 Hardship exemptions
- 11 See also
- 11.1 Organizations
- 11.2 Other substances
- 12 References
- 13 External links
[edit] Rationale
The rationale for smoke-free laws is to protect people from the effects of second-hand smoke, which include an increased risk of heart disease, cancer, emphysema, and other diseases.[2][3] Laws implementing bans on indoor smoking have been introduced by many countries in various forms over the years, with some legislators citing scientific evidence that shows tobacco smoking is harmful to the smokers themselves and to those inhaling second-hand smoke.
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