Smoking Behavior During Emerging Adulthood: A Longitudinal Analysis

Being exposed to second hand smoke from burning tobacco products causes disease and early death among nonsmokers. Public policies help to make and enforce new laws that are beneficial to the public, for instance, smoke free laws that prohibit smoking in public places like bars and restaurants to help improve the health of workers and the general population, there for saving lives by sparing non-smokers from breathing in the second-hand smoke. Smoking does not just harm the smoker it also harms people nearby, who breathe in the smoke. Tobacco smoke can cause cancer, strokes and heart disease and public policies makes us aware, cigarette smokers and tobacco companies in check.
In the article, Transitions in Smoking Behavior During Emerging Adulthood: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effect of Home Smoking Bans, the authors explain how likely it is for children to become smokers if there is smoking the home, and the probability of a child that has not been exposed to smoking in the home the chances of them becoming a smoker. “Home smoking bans have emerged as an important yet understudied protective factor. Although the primary goal of a home ban is to protect children and adult nonsmokers from secondhand smoke,12 recent evidence suggests that home smoking restrictions promote antismoking attitudes and reduce initiation and
It is the ethical thing to do, if you see children, to walk away before lighting a cigarette, not to smoke in front of building doors, in a car, or, in a park. Why should a child’s life be susceptible, to cancer, respiratory disease and ultimately death, because a smoker doesn’t care about theirs? Education, especially for the parents whom are smokers, need to be implemented as it pertains to their children and the effects and diseases they are exposing their children