Smoking affected the Economy!!!!

Some said that government benefits from smoking taxes but some said that by quitting smoking will give economic benefits for you and for the government. In my opinion,both research are true depending on the economic costs of smoking.





Diagram 4: Freedom of Smoking
Sources:
http://blog.bunnybot.com/blog/images/smoking_bunny.jpg

First of all,the immediate benefits of quitting smoking to you is that you will have more cash in your pocket. In economic language, there is whooping $130 billion of real resource costs of smoking in The United States. That is to say this $130 billion is more burdensome to the US economy than collecting the taxes. It imposes a tax on the consumer, but provides offsetting revenues to the government.

According to a study, smoking related illnesses cost the US, $60 billion per year. It can only mean one thing- the waste of scarce medical resources. If we can eliminate smoking tomorrow, the resulting savings can partially offset our GDP deficits. If a smoker smokes more than one packet a day, he will spend an amount of $25000.

Other than that,the cost of shortened lives also have give an impact to the government. Smokers tend to be younger and retire sooner. This carries a price of $80 billion to the US economy due to lost output and lost wages. Also the absentee rate among smokers is very high.

http://www.stop-smoking-updates.com/quitsmoking/quitting-benefits/economic-benefits/economic-benefits.htm



Therefore, by quitting smoking it can give economic benefits to the government by reducing the losses of the wages,medical resources,cost of smoking and etc. Do you think the same?Why?

Secondhand Smoke!

Do you know?Secondhand smoke causes premature death and disease in children and in adults who do not smoke. Children who exposed to secondhand smoke are at an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more severe asthma. Secondhand smoke immediately affects the heart and blood circulation in a harmful way. Over a longer time it also causes heart disease and lung cancer.

The scientific evidence shows that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
Many millions of Americans, both children and adults, are still exposed to secondhand smoke in their homes and workplaces despite a great deal of progress in tobacco control.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Secondhand_Smoke-Clean_Indoor_Air.asp

In fact,secondhand tobacco smoke can get into hair and clothing.I myself experienced this where all of my clothes and hair smell cigarettes smoke becaused I lived in a house with a smoker.It is a big problem for me because I felt uncomfortable with the smell.

Therefore,what do you think can be done with secondhand smoke?

Pregnant Women Smoking!

First of all,one of the way to prevent people from beginning to smoke starts from the parents.They should not smoke in front of their children and even better not to have smoking habit at all.This habit can be followed by the children when they are grown up.Mothers are playing an important role in a family and also to the next generations therefore,up to 5% of infants death would be prevented if pregnant women did not smoke.

Diagram 2: Pregnant Woman
Sources:

http://beingnoisy.blogspot.com/

Do you know?More than 10% of women smoke throughout their pregnancies.Smoking is linked to an increased risk of early delivery and infant death. Research also suggests that infants of mothers who smoke during and after pregnancy are 2 to 3 times more likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than babies born to non-smoking mothers. The risk of SIDS is somewhat less for infants whose mothers stop smoking during pregnancy, even if they start smoking again after delivery.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Women_and_Smoking.asp

Other than that,the negative effects towards the baby is not only during the pregnancy but also after delivery through the breast milk that contains some harmful chemical from the tobacco.

Therefore,What do you think mothers should do to quit smoking during and after pregnancy?

Smoking = Cancers

Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use that can be in forms of cigars, cigarettes, spit and other types of tobacco products. Tobacco products are the most popular form of smoking that being practiced by almost one billion people in all human society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking

Everyone knows smoking can cause many types of cancers to the smokers and also to the people surrounding. In my opinion, today’s smokers think that smoking is good for their health because they feel uncomfortable, sick and dizzy without smoking at least in 1 hour. But most of smoking effects will be seen in long term therefore most of the smokers take their health as granted. According to Cancer Research UK, smoking increases the risk of cancers that includes the mouth, larynx which is the human voice box, esophagus which is the human food pipe, liver, pancreas, stomach, kidney, bladder and cervix. All these cancers cause from the nicotine that went through these organs. Moreover, we can see how these organs are functioned and connected to our lung and liver when the nicotine goes through in human body as diagram below:




Diagram 1: Human Organs

Sources: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/

Although the young generation knows more about these facts, still they continue their smoking habit, because for some it is a manly attitude, for some it is a cool habit, for some it is like a medicine to reduce stress and some do it just following other’s trail. The effect of smoking shows in the long run, so they don’t realize what harm they are doing to their health. Even though a lot of events have taken place all around the world to prevent smoking, the number of smokers haven’t reduce. Is all these prevention events don’t work? Why do you think is doesn’t work? Why do people still begin to smoke?