Causing more than 400,000 deaths each year, smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Additionally, the direct medical costs amount more than $50 billion per year.
Smoking causes a fivefold increase in the risk of dying from chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and a twofold increase in deaths from diseases of the heart and coronary arteries. Smoking also increases the risk of stroke by 50 percent—40 percent among men and 60 percent among women (Gecker, 2003).
Lung cancer is now the most widespread cause of cancer deaths in men of most countries specifically Europe. This disease has a long latency period; the rise in the incidence of lung cancer during the second part of the 20th century was expected. This was because cigarette smoking became a popular and fairly widespread habit. Another important piece of evidence linking smoking to disease is that no sooner individuals give up smoking, the risk of lung cancer, artery disease, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and other tobacco-related diseases declines.
The other diseases associated with the smoking includeemphysema, asthma, coronary occlusion, heart attack, circulation vessel damage and gangrene. The diseases specific to Pregnancy includes impeded growth, increase in malformations. The nicotine is physiologically an extremely addictive material and smoking is not just a psychologically motivated problem. Nicotine generates irritability, anxiety, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating. Sleep disturbance, fatigue, headaches, dizziness, tremor, nausea and upset bowels are also related to smoking.
I believe that smoking in public places should be completely banned on the basis of public health. A current report estimates that 95% of office workers exposed to passive smoking or smoking environment exceed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's noteworthy jeopardy level for heart disease mortality, and 60% surpass noteworthy jeopardy for lung cancer mortality (Gecker, 2003).
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