Cancer Sticks Are Killing America

English 102

February 26, 2014

Cancer Sticks are Killing America

If a someone were to be happily walking down the street on a perfectly good morning, or even any time of day, and he or she walked straight through a large puff of cigarette smoke, how would he or she react? The usual person would normally not say anything and continue walking. But in reality if this person is not a smoker, surely they would be bad mouthing the smoker for ruining their walk. Cigarette smoke not only is disgusting, it also smells, and to a person experiencing secondhand smoke, it can be extremely suffocating. Cigarettes; not only do they have multiple serious health risks, and is the largest cause of preventable deaths in the world, but also has disturbing effects on others too. The secondhand smoke is just as dangerous and can cause just as many harmful health effects on a persons lungs as actually being the smoker can.

By now, smokers have to realize how terrible smoking is for their health. What may be less obvious is the effect that smoking has on others who are exposed to it secondhand. Secondhand smoke is when a person who is not smoking breathes in smoke that comes from the end of a lit cigarette, cigar, or pipe. A person is actually inhaling almost the same amount of chemicals as the smoker is breathing in. (Effects of Secondhand Smoke) Tobacco Smoke contains more than 4,000 different chemical compounds, chemicals of which are all known to cause cancer. Doctors have now confirmed that secondhand smoke can kill and have concluded that any exposure to involuntary or passive smoking is never safe and causes a person's health risks to increase.

In an effort to protect nonsmokers from all these health risks of secondhand smoke, many states have now passed laws preventing people from smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars, airplanes and even some important business offices. However these laws cannot prevent many people to escape secondhand smoke. Children are a...