Smoking in public has to be banned

First, to understand a problem of smoking we should look at history of smoking tobacco in America. Between 600 and 900 years AD the Mayan Indians of Mexico have already been using tobacco for its current purpose. Tobacco plants were grown by American Indians many years before Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. Though tobacco was used for smoking, Native Americans smoked it for different purposes: tobacco was smoked only for religious or medical reasons. It was not used on the daily bases, as many people smoke now. When many items, not excluding cigarettes became manufactured, producers found cheaper alternatives of components, which were included into manufactures. If we are looking at a life of a cigarette, it starts in the leafy tobacco plant that grows in warm climate. For better growth, farmers use fertilizers that already contain dangerous for human"s health chemicals. After picking the tobacco leaves, they dried and crushed into small pieces. Soon after, other chemicals and artificial flavorings are added. Out of four thousand chemicals added 51 are known as carcinogenic. Many of those chemicals are poisonous, yet people do not pay attention where these chemicals might likewise be met. Carbon monoxide, tar, ammonia, methanol, butane" These components do not make much sense if people do not know their initial purposes. For example, ammonia is known by its being the main component of cleaning products such as toilet cleaner. Well known nicotine is used in bug sprays, arsenic " in a rat poison. Of course, everyone have heard changeless reasons of smoking being bad for our health, yet it is people"s personal decision whether they want to smoke or not. However, smokers ought to think about other people health while smoking in public places. Being outdoors, where different age groups of people are also present, smoking is the sing of irresponsibility. Smoking in public areas has to be banned. Yes, smoking kills. Yes, it is carcinogenic, thus any person can get cancer because of genetics and in case of cancer cells presence in human"s body, which happens frequently. Chemicals that are inhaled while smoking increase the change of the cancer cells mutation, which causes cancer of larynx, lungs, mouth area, breast and other parts of a body. Cancer is a disease, which kills its owner continually, giving only a small percentage of having a remission. According to the US statistics, 1,658,370 people were diagnosed and 589,430 died from cancer in the year 2015 on its territory. Therefore, person who smokes in public is slowly killing himself and people, who are standing next to him or just going near-by. Think about the different age groups that were mentioned before. Everyone is going out or is taken outside during the day. Newborns, children, teenagers, young people, adults and seniors. They are inhaling the smoke with all the chemicals that unknown person is producing by smoking a cigarette. The smoke is flowing from their nostrils to their lungs; blood circulation absorbs small particles of the dangerous chemicals. It is believed that being a second-hand smoker leads to worse consequences because person simply does not have a choice " he is inhaling a smoke against his will. Many second-hand smokers develop asthma, reproductive system problems, and heart diseases; it increases the chance of getting cancer. That is the reason why smoking in the public places has to be banned. Why children have to breathe in the environment, which kills them? They have no choice. There were 9,3 percent of children, which is equal to 6,8 million, who already have asthma in the year 2012. Imagine how the number has increased through out the years if 3,932,181 infants were born the next year? People, who smoke in public do not think, that they are slowly destroying someone life just by lighting on the cigarette. "Children see " children do". Terrifying statistics about the correlation between smokers and the age they started developing their bad habit: 90 percent of smokers began before age 19. Every teenager might get under a peer pressure and start damaging his body this way. They should not be judged. Why? Those teenagers, who are getting under the pressure, took an example on the streets, where adults show their passion to smoking cigarettes. Why do not they shoot themselves? It also kills. Yes, bullet makes it much faster, but it has the same effect. Why do elder people show a bad lifestyle example to teenagers, who will grow up and will do the same to the next generation? It is going to happen repeatedly if people do not stop it. The percentage of teen smokers, who will continue smoking and might die premature, is equal to 30 percent. Moreover, their death will be related to illnesses, which are developed by smoking. Smoking ban will give teenagers a chance to choose their lifestyle themselves. Let me talk about a place we live: our planet. We all know that pollutions, which are anthropogenic, do not make any goods for our air. People have already built uncountable number of factories and are using fossil fuels as an engine for their vehicles. Pollutions that are man-made damage our planet. Smoke, which comes from a burning cigarette, pollutes the atmosphere as any others. If smoking was not allowed in the public, there would be less people, who smoke in general, which means pollutions would decrease. However, air pollution is not a single environmental damage that cigarettes create. As everybody knows, after smoking a cigarette, there is a stub left. Usually, people do not pay attention to throwing it to the special waste-bit. Overall, cigarette-stubs composes up to one third of America"s litter. If it is taken worldwide, 4,5 trillion cigarette-stubs are littered every year. It takes around 5 year for cigarette-stub to decay in the ground and during this period chemicals, which were contained in the cigarette and its filter, are going to be absorbed; this contaminates our planet. If people did not smoke in public areas, they would simply not throw cigarette-stubs on the ground; thus, special smoking areas are going to be much better for the environment. As a conclusion, I want to say that the United States of America is one of the greatest countries, yet environmental problems, people"s behavior and habits might destroy its greatness from the inside. Let us make our country better by banning smoking in public places, so our future generation will appreciate effort that we have put into our development. Let us improve. Let us show our care. Sources: http://www.cdc.gov... https://www.dosomething.org... http://www.cdc.gov... http://blog.chron.com... http://www.lung.org...