Essays on Smoking In Public

Initiating change in a given sector requires a lot of planning and implementation of the plans. It is essential to plan for the resources required in the initiation and development of the change strategy. The resources required must also be managed for effective delivery of a chosen intervention. Managing resources require an input of stakeholders who are convinced and willing to assist in the delivery of the intervention. When identifying the stakeholders, it is crucial to inform them of the importance of a project to the targeted population. This would enable them to analyse the benefits of the project ...

I-Search 1: Does the ban on smoking in public places reduce tobacco consumption?

This topic could be discussed in a class that discusses effectiveness of public policy in the face of corporate lobbying. Tobacco companies have found ways to subvert public policy, market their products differently and have even created alternate products that are tobacco based but are not prohibited by current laws.

What I Knew

I have known for a while now that tobacco consumption is extremely harmful for health. In the form of cigarettes, tobacco is combined with other potent chemicals which reduce our health drastically . Cigarette smoking is injurious both to the smoker and people around them. After years of lobbying from ...

Part A: A Brawl in Mickey’s Backyard

The primary stakeholders in the SunCal’s plans are the; Employee unions and Disney. The secondary stakeholders will include; the Backers, Affordable housing advocates, the city council the other individuals and groups drawn by the prospect of reducing long commutes and the Save Our Anaheim Resort District group. The unions of employees are representing the Disney employees to ensure that they get affordable rental houses near their place of work. The Affordable Housing advocates are representing the employees; they are the voice of the employees for affordable housing. The other groups and individuals support the idea because it is ...

Today the problem of smoking is very actual. There is a great number of people, that smoke everywhere. That is why, non smokers are hostage of the situation. In this case, the non smokers cannot be a side of this global disaster of society. Also, people smoke in public areas, which is not acceptable, because there are a lot of people and children that do not smoke. It is dangerous for their health. They have to defend their own rights. The smoking is a bad habit and million of people suffer from this dependence, but nevertheless it is not ...

Within the last decade, medical researchers have placed more emphasis on the dangers of smoking and the negative effect that this has on smokers and non-smokers. These researches show what many persons have come to accept and that is that smoking is a danger to those who actually smoke and those who are in close proximity to the people who smoke. The fact is that smoking has terrible effects on people’s health, physical appearance and financial well-being. Some persons develop various chronic diseases as a result of years of smoking, while others carry the unpleasant scent of tobacco ...

Background

There is a growing debate on whether the government should make it illegal to smoke in public places. Those proposing for its ban argue that smoking has harmful effects on both the smoker and non-smokers as well as to the environment. However, those opposing the ban maintain that smoking helps relax and making smoking in public places illegal would amount to infringement of personal rights. A smoking ban refers to a public policy prohibiting smoking in public places. Cigarettes contain more than 4,000 different chemicals and at least 50 of these contain poisonous carcinogens (Hudson 24). The first reports of ...

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Smoking is an addiction, such as an addiction to drugs or to alcohol. It is dependence, which causes great harm to health. To overcome it one any method can be used. Banning smoking in public places is one of the most decisive and impactful way to reduce the number of smokers and lessen of harm caused by second-hand smoking. The main objectives of the ban on smoking in public places are protection of the health of non-smokers and fire safety. Other reasons include preserving the purity of the premises, as well as higher labour capacity of non-smoking employees.

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Smoking Ban

Smoking is a dreadful habit that not only affects the person doing it but the set of people related to the person as well the set of people that are around that person while smoking. Smoking is an addictive disease that causes damage to the liver as well as the other major organs of the body. Seeing that there are many hazardous effects of smoking, most of the countries have a ban on smoking in public places. This rule has been laid forward because smokers are ruining their health by choice but if they are allowed to smoke in public, they ...

Smoking has already been identified by numerous publications and journals as one of the top risk factors for the development of heart and cardiopulmonary diseases. This rationale has been used by policy makers to make policies and ordinances that prohibit the act of smoking tobacco products in public places. Unfortunately, some countries are yet to follow suit. Their ordinances and legislations’ laxity against the spread of second hand smoke are evidenced by the fact that smoking in public places are not yet fully enforced. In an academic journal published in the Journal of American Association in 2006, the authors ...

Smoking is a disgusting habit, which affects the health and wealth. For decades, governments have been trying to find ways to eradicate smoking. The hot debates on whether governments have the right to ban smoking cigarettes in public places or not still continue. Some people argue that everyone should make own choice whether to smoke or not. Personally, I think the government should be responsible for citizens' health care and outlaw smoking in public places. The most important reason for imposing restrictions is to prevent harm to human health, avoid discomfort among non-smokers and protect environment. It is a well-known ...

English

New Jersey should continue to prohibit smoking in public places such as restaurants, clubs, bar and other public places. In fact, studies show that exposure to second-hand smoke can result to psychological distress that may lead to mental illness in healthy adults in the future. It has been proven that second-hand smoke has been associated to several somatic health results. In the study that was conducted in the country London, specifically in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the researchers discovered that there is connection between mental health and second-hand smoke exposure by measuring the using salivary cotinine level of a person (Nursing ...

General Purpose: Evaluate whether smoking in public places is justified.

Specific Purpose: Explore the arguments for and against bans on smoking in public places. Thesis Statement: Non-smokers should be protected from the detrimental effects of second-hand smoke in public places by law or statute. Introduction - Attention Getter: Due to various recently highly publicized and somewhat sensationalized reports and studies of the effect of second-hand smoking, many cities in the world have placed a ban on smoking in public places. A ban specifies places where one is forbidden to smoke (usually enclosed and public places like pubs, work spaces and restaurants) and, in some cases, places ...

DRUGS

- True legalizing drugs that are currently illegal would go a long way as far as revenue collection is concerned. The objection is however based on considerations other than finances. Human life is more valuable than any amount of revenue and as such no illegal drug should be legalized. - Legislation is the way to go as far as drug abuse is concerned. All drugs should however not be made illegal. An example is alcohol. If drugs are declared illegal then the war on them is made official and this is more likely to deter their use. - ...

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Business Benefits of Banning Smoking in Restaurants

Introduction The ban on smoking is a designation that prohibits smoking tobacco and similar products under certain conditions. Different countries have different restrictions and penalties. Smoking ban may be declared owner of the premises or to the laws of the country. The main objectives of the smoking ban are fire safety and protection of health smoking. For the rest, include preserving the purity of the premises and a great performance smoking employees. Individual American cities and states have banned smoking in public places, such as bars, restaurants, offices. The ...

English

Throughout this semester I have learned a lot of things in my English class. I must confess that Professor Duckworth was very supportive of my initiatives and taught me a lot of skills on how to write. For the first time, I learned how to use Ethos, Pathos and Logos in sentences and how to use emotions to state strong statements to provide credibility. I have learned how to state my thesis clearly now, and I can structure and organize paragraphs quite well. I learned also come to understand how I need to close a subject by including a strong conclusion that restates my thesis. ...

Introduction

As people are becoming gradually more thoughtful with healthier lives and living longer, the harmful effects of live style and habits are becoming matters of significant considerations. One of the issues of lifestyle that are controversial today is matters of smoking in public places. In the pursuit of achieving healthy and clean environments, banning of smoking in public places is essential. The adoption of laws that will ban smoking in public places will mean that smoking will a thing of the past in health facilities, workplaces, parks, religious areas, educational grounds, sports and recreational facilities. Essentially, such policies aim at ...

Introduction

Fire Fighting or Fire Services in United States date back to 17th century due to conflagrating inferno of 1631 in Boston, a colony of Massachusetts Bay passed legislation for no smoking in public accommodations. In 2012, 1,129,250 firefighters worked in United States, 31% of them were career fire fighters and 69% of them were volunteers. Currently there are 30,100 Fire Departments in United States alone and these departments have 6,900 aerial apparatus, 66,900 pumpers, 52,650 fire stations and 74,000 suppression vehicles. In 2012, 68% of the responses from fire departments were for medical ...

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Business Benefits of Banning Smoking in Restaurants

Introduction The ban on smoking is a designation that prohibits smoking tobacco and similar products under certain conditions. Different countries have different restrictions and penalties. Smoking ban may be declared owner of the premises or to the laws of the country. The main objectives of the smoking ban are fire safety and protection of health smoking. For the rest, include preserving the purity of the premises and a great performance smoking employees. Individual American cities and states have banned smoking in public places, such as bars, restaurants, offices. The ...

Smoking in public places has been a major concern worldwide. Medical research has shown that public smoking leads to heath problems in the society due to the adverse effects it causes to both the smoker and the non-smoker, affecting both the people’s health and the environment at large. Though cigarette sale contributes revenue to the country, this should not make people overlook the economic effect it brings to the nation. The effects of public smoking cause to the community and the environment should be properly analyzed using available data and further research to support the proposal that Public smoking ...

Clean and healthy environment in one that is free from smoking. There is a need to adopt a law to burn tobacco smoking in any public areas. This will prohibit smoking in areas where it exposes the public to smokers’ risk. Smoking is found to cause respiratory diseases like tuberculosis to both active and passive smokers. It has been researched and realized that passive smokers are profoundly affected by the inhalation of the cigar particles. This is possible due to air borne type of transmit ion and low concentration of the particles providing a greater area for its chemical reaction. Burning of ...

The Smoke free Environments Amendment Act (2003) The Smoke free Environments Amendment Act (2003) The commitment of the New Zealand government in promoting health care came under scrutiny in the early 2000s when many people complained about the smoking environment in the country. However, the government reacted swiftly assuring the people that they were ready to take care of the health of all its citizens. Most of the health policies since then emanate from government regulations. The smoke free amendment act of 2003 is a public policy initiative supported by most of the people, which ensured that the ...

Over the last few years, people tend to notice an increasing number of “no smoking” signs in public places. Many countries the world over have imposed public policies, laws and regulations that ban smoking in public places and workplaces. Indicatively, smoking on public transport has been prohibited in South Australia in 1994 (Drug and Alcohol Services for South Australia) and gradually the rest of the world’s countries have enacted similar laws, while countries like England and Wales are considering a pilot ban of smoking within prisons, for 2014 (BBC News UK). Ireland was the first country to ban smoking ...

Cigarette smoking is considered as a serious challenge facing several people throughout the world as the habit is addictive. For instance, in the U.S., it is estimated that about 44 million people which is equivalent to 19 percent of all the adults in the country smoke cigarettes. Statistics also reveal that cigarette smoking problem has become more prevalent among men at 21.6 percent while the women who smoke represent 16.5 percent (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Cigarette smoking is considered as one of the main and leading causes of preventable cases of death in the U.S. for instance, it ...

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"Cigarette smoking, the chief avoidable cause of premature death in this country, is responsible for more than 300,000 premature deaths each year."(Letter from Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, to President George Bush, May 3, 1988). In a study by Henningfield, According to the American Heart Association research, helded in 2011, almost 440,000 deaths each year in the United States are caused by smoking. It leads to lung cancer, other cancers, chronic obstructive lung disease, heart disease, troubles with pregnancy, and lots other health effects. This negative habit affects every separate system in our ...

Smoking in public is perhaps one of the most debatable and controversial topics around. The discussion on the topic draws diverse and disparate views and opinions. There are two different lobbies or schools of thoughts when it comes to the topic or issue of smoking in public. While the one side is against smoking in public, the other finds absolutely nothing wrong in smoking among others. Both sides have their thoughts and arguments to back their opinion. But, off late the voice against smoking in public has gained strength and momentum and more and more public are vying for ...

Arguably, many countries in the globe have laws that regulate or prohibit smoking in various places. As a matter of fact, smoking affects both smokers and non-smokers. The two types of smokers that is the active and passive smokers faces tremendous consequences, but the differences arise in the sense that an active smoker makes the choice to smoke while a passive smoker is just a victim of smoking by inhaling the smoke. Nonsmokers and smokers meet in various public places such as hotels, restaurants, busses, offices, as well as various institutions and each one should enjoy their life whatever. Smokers have the ...

Introduction

Although the U.S. has not (yet) introduced a nationwide ban on smoking in public places, more states are introducing their own legislation, though the scope and extent of the locations where the ban applies is not uniform The bans began in California in1995, and by 2012 existed in probably half of the American states. Those bans are of course beneficial to the health of the nation and not just to the smokers themselves. For many years now, the medical experts have been telling us that smoking is hazardous to health (often falling on deaf ears as far as confirmed smokers ...

The Cover Letter

Q1 This essay gives an outline of the different positions on the smoking ban which are presented in the texts. The outlines different articles and opinions of various parties involved. To achieve this, the essay provides statistical data to support the stand of the researcher. Q2 The challenge the writer encountered during the research is in the writing phase as I had to illustrate whether the society has the responsibility to prevent people from smoking in public or if it is up to the individual to decide. I had to research on this subject. Q3 ...

As we were walking home after school, we met a certain man smoking in the pavement and it made me sneeze several times. I complained about smoking in public to my friends and the boys in our company disputed it. One of my friends Dave said that we ladies love ourselves so much and should keep off other people’s lives and let them smoke. He claimed that they can do it anywhere they want because it is their life and body and if it was harmful, it will affect their bodies, yet we have been taught severally that smoking ...

This essay discusses the bans on smoking in public places that have been introduced in recent times in many countries of the world. Depending on the individual country, the ban may be either nationwide or determined by state or region within that country. The reason I believe such bans are so important is to reduce the numbers of deaths from cancer, which has long been known to be directly linked with smoking, including the effects of secondary inhalation of tobacco smoke, known as “passive smoking”. According to the CBC News website, quoting the World Health Organization (WHO), some 1.3 ...

According to Willbert (2012) in the article, prohibiting cigarette use in the US; very beneficial for citizens, he has noted that, there is no any nationwide federal ban prohibiting people from smoking in public places in the United States because the congress have not taken a serious concern on the issue. Therefore, most smoking bans in the US are enactments of the occupational safety and health laws, state laws as well as local criminal laws. Hence, smoking laws are not consistent but they vary widely throughout the US. Some states have not controlled smoking at all, other states have regulated ...

Health issues

Nearly all the body parts are affected by smoking. Starting from the head all the way down, smoking affects the functioning of these body organs. To begin with, as a person smokes, the smoke passes through the mouth to the other parts of the respiratory system. The mouth is therefore the first organ to be exposed to risk of infection. Cancer of the mouth is one of the most common types of diseases affecting smoking individuals (Anderson 15). This is because the chemicals contained in cigarettes causes the antibodies on the surfaces of the mouth to die. This thus leaves ...