Why Smoking Should Be Banned

Today I am here to talk to you all about a problem that is far-reaching the nation. According to the National Cancer Institute. Each Year an estimate of 443,000 people die from smoking, but the damaging effects of smoking do not stop with the smoker. An estimated 88 million nonsmoking Americans, including 54% of children under the age of 12, are open to secondhand smoke and about 46,000 non-smoking Americans die from second hand smoke exposure a year. Over the past few years two of my uncles have had to have open-heart surgery in consequence to smoking most of their life. One of my uncles even got out of his bed, the day after having surgery, unhooked all of the chords and monitors off of him, and walked outside to smoke. Let me tell you the nurses were not too happy with him that day. If that doesn’t say smoking is a bad habit and addiction then I don’t know what does. I am credible to speak on this topic because I have seen the impact that smoking has had on my uncles health and a few other family members health and because of the extensive research that I have done. I have decided to talk to you all about banning smoking in public places because I want to make you aware of the dangers that it can cause. I hope that after my presentation you will have a good idea of how smoking is just a bad habit, nothing more and nothing less and is not only harmful to the smoker but to everyone around them. I will start off by talking about the effects smoking has on the heart, then I will talk about how it can cause unborn babies to have problems when they are born, and I will finish by talking about the effects it has on nonsmokers.
First I will discuss how smoking is bad for the heart. Other than the obvious answer that smoking is generally not good for you in the first place, it can cause many people to have heart attacks, strokes, and repertory diseases. Dr. Meyers a Professor of Cardiology and Preventative Medicine says that smoking remains the leading preventable