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Should Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Be Outlawed
Cigarettes and tobacco-based products are a hot debate among different factions of people since forever. According to a certain group of individuals, the cigarette is a way of life meanwhile, the remaining cluster asserts the dark side of cigarettes and emphasizes a legally implicated ban on the sale, production, and usage of tobacco products, specifically cigarettes. Production, selling, and usage of cigarettes involve significant detrimental effects including health perils, increased healthcare cost, environmental damaging effects, and myriads of other similar hazards. The perceived drawbacks of cigarettes affirm the utter need for cigarettes and other tobacco products to be outlawed in order to mitigate the associated perilous effects of the practice.
Cigarettes are tube-shaped commodities that are made of processed tobacco leaves, finely enwrapped into a thin layer of paper. The cigarette may also be made of other different ingredients such as different aromas and artificial flavours the consumer lits one end of the device and smokes from the other. As a matter of fact, the cigarettes are laden with myriads of harmful chemicals which may cause damaging impact not only on smokers but also on second-hand smokers (National Cancer Institute, 2019). Chronological annals identify cigarette as the most dangerous product for human civilization (Proctor, 2013). The contemporary research and innovative mind frames are compelling almost all countries to exert deliberate endeavours in eradicating overall smoking rate and tobacco consumption patterns. Governments are devising and implementing public policies continuously to outlaw the smoking practices within organizational and other pubic premises (Public Health Control, 2009). USA congress has not heeded any particular enact in prohibiting the smoking on a federal or national scale, and therefore all such laws lie under the subcategories of local criminal, first-level jurisdiction, and occupational safety and health legislation. In this context, California was the pioneer state that implemented a legal ban on smoking on the state level in 1995. Afterwards, various other states imitated the instance established by California and several states enacted a statewide prohibition on smoking such bans are not identical but somehow intertwined with the similar core ideology (Institute of Medicine, 2010)
Initially, the ban on cigarettes and similar products was implemented to protect the second-hand smokers from the devastating and even exacerbating extent of consuming second-hand smoke. Medical research proves that the risk of cancer, emphysema, and cardiac diseases elevate manifold for second-hand smokers as compared to primary smokers (Hatsukami et al., 2010). Throughout the past decade, various countries introduced several laws that explicitly or implicitly prohibited indoor smoking to prevent the possible inhaling of second-hand chemicals. Along with mitigated perils of inhaling unsafe fumes, the smoke banning laws also play an integral role in cutting down on healthcare expenditures both on national and local levels. The implied framework of such legislation carves positive effects that evidently reflect in increased work productivity and workforce safety. In this context, in 2006, the administration of Indiana pursued an economic expansion and development program that promoted the notion of outlawing cigarettes to sustain the communities more inclined toward employment growth.
Apparently, smoking is a futile tradition and absurd ritual of any society that can be altered through tireless, dedicated and well-planned strategies banning the cigarettes legally is one of them. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), interdiction of cigarettes and similar disastrous products will discourage people to smoke conveniently anywhere, anytime and the overall effort will bring a significant shift in age-old social norms. Governments deem a ban on cigarettes as an initiative to supplement the social and economic structure of a country or state and equate it with taxation, education and improved healthcare measures (Peretti et al., 2009).
The cigarette is the most drastically adverse device that is made of more than 600 elements altogether. The worst happens when smokers lit the cigarettes and conjure more than seven thousand detrimental chemicals research proved that 69 of smoking-based chemicals evoke the causes of cancer, and in some cases, bring morbidity as well (American Lung Association, 2020). Unlike other consumers commodities, cigarettes never come with warning labels that, in turn, increases users perils of getting allured to a product that seems harmless apparently. Cigarette features ammonia, acetone, benzene, hexamine, carbon monoxide, lead, methanol, and nicotine as well as arsenic that also used in the production of rat poison (American Lung Association, 2020).
Smoking, either first-hand or second-hand, exacerbates the health complications and poses severely negative impacts on an individual and communal health conditions. Unfortunately, the devastating effects of smoking never remain only with the smoker but disseminated to others with greater magnitude. Whenever a cigarette is smoked within public proximity, the second-hand users have to bear measurable, and in several cases, undeviating effects. In this way, smoking encapsulates a vast populace in its grasp, even with the help of a single cigarette. Lung cancer, ageing, pregnancy intricacies, and heart diseases are some of the prevalent health disasters that are caused by smoking and affect all the people in the proximity of smoking fumes (Rutherford, 2009). Some people suggest the usage of e-cigarettes but researches demonstrate the similar injurious aspect of digital cigarettes as well. According to statistical evaluation, throughout the United States, one of five morbidities are interrelated to smoking and are the outcomes of lung cancer, bronchitis, pneumonia, and emphysema (Chew, 2009). As a result, majorly affected states including Alaska and California etcetera aimed to enhance the health mtier for their locals through strict tactics against the causations of such demises, banning the cigarettes in public places is one of such strategies (Chew, 2009).
In the recent age, the planet is encountering unavoidable environmental crisis and plantation, harvesting, and production, as well as consumption of cigarettes, are laden with adverse impacts both on humans and atmosphere, simultaneously. Phenomenally, tobacco is the core ingredient of all cigarettes and other tobacco-based products and its cultivation requires wide territories of rainforests. Therefore, the bigwigs and corrupt authorities exploit their influence and partake in the significant occurrence of deforestation (Rinkesh, 2017). No doubt, manufacturing and selling of cigarettes and other similar commodities are thriving and promising businesses, for this reason, the previously used small acres of cigarette plantation expanded to a great extent and engulfed the rainforests concurrently. Take the instance of Tabora village, Tanzania, where exceeding and accelerating deforestation and its ripple effects compelled local tobacco peasants to confirm such environmental cruelty (Makoye, 2012). The increased deforestation is affecting the foraging resources and demolishing the overall equilibrium of biodiversity and also stirring the hazards of global warming (Rinkesh, 2017).
Regardless of all certified risks and downsides of smoking many people still adhere to the so-called benefits of smoking cigarettes. According to the antagonist faction, cigarettes are advantageous in combating against Parkinson and knee surgeries some associate smoking with reduced depression and tension. In younger age, youngsters inclined toward such self-indulgence habits that also include weeding and marijuana as well as smoking cigarettes people consider smoking as a cheaper and handy recreational activity, and therefore, depict reluctance regarding its prohibition. However, the purported benedictions of smoking are not valid enough to surpass the cons of such severely adverse practice.
By analyzing the above-mentioned facts and factoids, it is evident that smoking cigarettes is a negative habit that not only harms the smoker but also enwraps the bystanders in it its viciousness. Smoking is comprised of countless cons that exceed any perceived advantages if any. The multifaceted disadvantages of smoking cigarettes and other tobacco-based products include health, economic, and environmental problems that pose devastating effects on the overall atmosphere and mortality rate of a locality. In summation
Cigarettes and tobacco-based products are easy to access and avail almost all around the planet that, in turn, is exacerbating the habitual smoking among a large populace.
From the health perspective, smoking is destructive both for first-hand smokers and even more detrimental for second-hand smokers because they inhale extremely injurious vapours directly. Smoking also paves the path for different minor and major diseases and disorders such as lung cancer, bronchitis, pneumonia, and birth complications. The extreme consequences of smoking can lead an individual to death.
E-cigarettes are equally injurious as conventional cigarettes.
Health-based side effects of cigarettes and tobacco-based products amplify the sum total of healthcare cost on national and local levels.
Cultivation and harvesting of tobacco plants require expanded rainforest regions that, in turn, evoke the peril of increased deforestation. Deforestation consequently, disturbs the entire ecological system to a great extent.
In order to control and monitor the cigarette production, selling, and usage, governments and legal authorities have to devise effective and applicable laws to prevent the convenient smoking at least in public areas.
Although some people argue about the positive facades of smoking which seems absurd because none of such advantage can set off the price one has to pay for smokings negative chaos.
Cigarettes and tobacco-based products are no-recreational habits and may have short or long-term negative impact not only on health of people but also on the finance and environment of the setting. Therefore, it is highly recommended to imply a ban on cigarettes and other relevant commodities and establishing modern and life-changing norms throughout the society, and expanding them gradually on international level.
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Chew, N., Three Reasons Why Smoking Should Be Banned.Livestrong.Com. Available at https//www.livestrong.com/article/207919-three-reasons-why-smoking- should-be-banned/ Accessed January 27, 2020.
Hatsukami, D., Perkins, K., LeSage, M., Ashley, D., Henningfield, J., Benowitz, N., Backinger, C. and Zeller, M. (2010). Nicotine reduction revisited science and future directions.Tobacco Control, 19(5), pp.e1-e1.
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Makoye, K., 2012. cb1f21c7-7d98-4ea3-903f-c5de10e41700.Tobacco farms drive major deforestation in Tanzania. Available at http//news.trust.org/item/maptobacco- farms-drive-major-deforestation-in-tanzania Accessed January 27, 2020.
Peretti-Watel, P., Seror, V., Constance, J. and Beck, F. (2009). Poverty as a smoking trap.International Journal of Drug Policy, 20(3), pp.230-236.
Proctor, R. (2013). Why ban the sale of cigarettes The case for abolition.Tobacco Control, 22(suppl 1), pp.i27-i30.
Rinkesh (2017). 10 Serious Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Environment and Human Health.Conserve Energy Future. Available at https//www.conserve-energy- future.com/serious-effects-cigarette-smoking-environment-and-human-health.php Accessed January 27, 2020.
Rutherford, J., 2009. 5 reasons to ban smoking in public places.Richmond Register. Available at https//www.richmondregister.com/news/lifestyles/reasons-to-ban- smoking-in-public-places/article_f0830ffb-2986-5232-99aa-c77c61a2fb01.html Accessed January 27, 2020.
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