Argumentative Facts Why Smoking Should Be Illegal

Tobacco is known worldwide since time immemorial. It was discovered in America 6000 years before Christ, it was originally used in religious ceremonies as a medicine and until 5000 years later they did not discover that it could be inhaled. That was when people started smoking. 

The aim of our essay is to find important facts for which smoking should be prohibited in restaurants. We focus mainly on health-related problems, which means that it not only involved active smokers but also passive smokers that is more important in this area. There are three very important facts for us: The smoke of other people's tobacco causes lung cancer, heart disease and infections in the lungs and bronchial tubes. Anti-tobacco laws protect employees and customers from this smoke at work. These laws reduce the number of smokers by giving them free spaces from the temptation to smoke.

Active Smokers

There is no doubt that smoking is unhealthy for our bodies. But, what are the big inconveniences that smokers suffer? Carcinogenic nicotine in cigarettes causes two immediate effects: an increase in our heartbeat and also in blood flow. This continues affects the heart. It is difficult for our heart because it has to pump more blood to have enough oxygen. Throughout it will increase blood cholesterol. As a consequence, the risk of having a heart attack is greater. A smoker can increase his risk of having lung cancer by 900% (10 times more).

There is an effect of tobacco that is not well known and is that it is connected to fertility. Studies have shown that 38% of non-smokers had a child at the first attempt, compared to only 28% of smokers. In addition, tobacco is the cause of impotence in men. Miscarriage occurs more in women smokers. There is no evidence that passive smoking is worse than active smoking. It is clear that the two types are harmful, but now let's look a little more at the passive smoker. Passive smokers suffer without wanting the consequences that active smokers choose knowingly. Let's focus on the liabilities because this is one of the problems that causes more discussions about whether tobacco should be abolished in restaurants and public places.

Pasive Smokers

'Don't smoke, smoking causes cancer.' This phrase appears everywhere but we must focus but we focus on the passive part since, as we have said before it is the key to accepting the smoking ban. Secondhand smoke is divided into two classes: indirect and direct smoke.

The first is the smoke that comes out of the end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar. The second is the smoke that has been exhaled by the smoker. Sometimes we think they have no difference but without a doubt the indirect one has more carcinogenic compounds. Even if it seems more unlikely.

People who are not smokers and only absorb cigarette smoke take the same amount of nicotine and toxic products as people who are currently smokers.

The action of smoking involuntarily is known as a human carcinogen because it is true that it causes cancer. It was tested by the US Environmental Protection Agency and by many other organizations. Tobacco contains more than 250 harmful chemicals and 69 of them cause lung cancer. There is also a connection between passive smoking and the development of lymphoma, leukemia, brain tumors, and other types of cancer such as breast cancer. This problem is being studied since it is true that breast cancer does not develop in both active and passive smokers. The United States is informed that there is a relationship with this second class smoke. There is an increase in deaths from heart disease and lung cancers in non-smokers. Also asthma problems are getting worse every year that passes. 

Conclusion

Throughout this long history, tobacco prohibition has been one of the most controversial and discussed issues worldwide. Regarding this, society is divided into several groups: non-smokers, addicted smokers, people who do not care about the subject and the rest. All of them together create an environment full of debates, arguments and opinions where everyone wants to defend their opinion and their rights.