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Smoking is the inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of burning tobacco.
The dried leaves of plants are smoked in a pipe or in cigar form, but mostly in cigarettes.
European explores arriving in the western hemisphere observed native American smoking leaves of the tobacco plant in pipes, and the practice was introduced onto England in the 1500’s. The general attitude was that smoking relieved tension and produced no ill effects. Epidemiologists soon noticed that lung cancer was on the increase. The public at large was ignorant to this fact. At first the medical profession were viewed with scepticism. It took many years for their voices to be heard. Medical science has now proved beyond
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People have a right to sit on a bus or in a cinema and not be the victims of passive smoking. Statistics show that the risk of a stillborn baby or one, who dies in the first week of birth, increases with every cigarette smoked. Why should I have to go out and have my health damaged and my clothes ruined or made smelly by other people with a bad and dangerous habit.
Non smokers want to travel to work and enjoy leisure activities in a smoke free environment and it is their right. Smoking has become anti social in the 1990,s and the non-smokers voice can now be heard loud and clear. Restaurants have smoking tables but this does not prevent the smoke or the smell reaching other tables.
Most smokers will tell you that it is their choice to smoke, that may be the case but what if that smoker is a female and pregnant, what if that smoker sits in a room filled with young children and inflicts her choice on to them. Young children are easily influenced and the sight of a teenager smoking could be the trigger to turn that child into a smoker. The government has an ongoing campaign to make mothers aware of the damage-smoking can do to the defenceless unborn child. If a woman smokes during pregnancy the she delivers nicotine and carbon monoxide into her babies blood stream. Government policy has to be expanded to cover every aspect of smoking in public. A report published in the 1988 showed that passive smoking (breathing in other people’s smoke) can increase a non-smoker’s chance of getting cancer by 10-32%. They should not be permitted to force on us. Passive smoking can also causes chest complaints and general ill health.
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