The Smoking Ban

      Smoking in Philippines is an extremely toxic and potentially fatal habit, not just for the actual smokers. Passive smoking is also a smoking illness that can kill, without even having to inhale a single cigarette. Just breathing in the fumes alone can cause cancers and lung problems, for example if your parents were smokers and you lived in a smoking environment.

       It is well publicised that smoking damages health, though people still seem to become addicted despite the fact that the health warnings are almost everywhere, even on the actual cigarette packets. Some shocking statistics have been uncovered in recent years highlighting the dangers of smoking, and passive smoking. If your husband/wife smokes then you have a 1 ½ greater chance of developing lung cancer, and 27% of 15 year old girls smoke today. Ultimately one in four of them will die as a result of it. Smokers choose to smoke, and to put themselves at risk, but should non-smokers still suffer and be at risk just the same?

      Passive smoking is possibly responsible for several hundred of the 40,000 annual lung cancer deaths in the other country. It is shocking to believe that people could be at serious risk of cancer, just by being near a person who is smoking. Therefore non-smokers were extremely relieved and pleased when the Government created the Smoking Ban. .

      From then on,there are lot of legislation’s stated that it was now illegal to smoke in public places. Pubs, clubs, restaurants, shops, anywhere with public access were non smoking areas, but will that help the nation when it comes to smoking, or should the Government do more?

      In addition to the ban there is a lot of negative publicity about smoking. As well as the health risks, smoking often gives people bad breath, stained fingers, rapidly ageing skin, smelly clothes, hum disease and loss of teeth.  Passive smoking can also cause running of the eyes, an irritated throat and they smell like they have been smoking as the smell gets in their hair and clothes, but it is the bigger picture that are making headlines today. Tobacco companies were well aware of the huge health risks that cigarettes carried, yet they knew if people knew too, they wouldn’t buy them therefore the companies would not make a lot of money. So, rather than letting unaware people know exactly what was in the cigarette they were inhaling, they didn’t make the dangers known, misleading people and causing diseases to spread and begin the disgusting habit that would ‘take over’ the world. As a result of this entirely misleading situation, many individuals all over the world are suing large tobacco companies for compensation for a relative or partners death, largely caused by smoking related diseases.