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In an article published September 21, 2009 from MSNBC online, Keva Andersen describes the research on how smoking ban in public places will prevent heart attack as well as improve public health. Smoking bans in public places will reduce the number of heart attacks by as much as 36 percent. Over 46,000 non-smokers die every year due to heart disease. Long-term exposure to secondhand smoke raises heart disease rates in nonsmokers by 25 percent to 30 percent. However with the widespread smoking ban in public places, it will decrease heart attack rates within three years. Nevertheless, this will improve public health and create a clean environment for citizens. Will smokers be able to accept this policy? Are they willing to stop smoking in parks or in front of the work place? Many smokers might say NO. With taxes increasing on tobacco products and smoking ban on public places, many smokers will found this to be difficult for them to live their everyday life. However, this policy will help reduce the rate of heart attack as well as other disease relating to secondhand smoking. Regular smokers need to realize that their responsible for the reason that non-smokers health is in danger. We as citizen deserve to live and breathe in a clean environment without worrying about the risk of having health problems due to others negligence’s.
Video by Keva Andersen
To read the full article visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32957602/ns/health-heart_health/
I really agree with this article a lot. I feel that we should really cut down on smoking in public places, because second hand smoke can also kill people to. We need to be more considerate when it comes to our health as well as the health of others.
ReplyDeleteWhile I know this is a controversial issue, you have to think about both sides of the story. When there was a smoking ban in Champaign for all the bars I couldn't be happier. Banning smoking in a confined space like a bar, where non-smokers would be exposed to the smoke for a long period of time is the absolute goal. But, if you are talking about banning smoking in a park or on the street might be a little extreme. The amount of smoke that one is exposed to in open air or as a passer by is so limited that it would have no effect on ones health. Therefore I do not think that smoking needs to be banned in public places that are in open space, but in a combined space, like a bar or a restaurant.
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