Non-smokers are really not the type of people who want to keep smokers from smoking. The only thing they consider bothering is inhaling cigarette smoke involuntarily. Some smokers believe that non-smokers want to keep them from smoking out of a spiteful behaviour. That is not true. Only a non-smoker or an ex-smoker can understand how bothering cigarette smoke can be. It is like smelling something that has a sickeing effect.

This is not meant to be insulting to any smoker now but just imagine someone blowing irritating and bad smelling stuff into your face all the time. If someone did it with a spray can, you would mind too.

Now let me tell you some facts about second hand smoking:

Did you know that sitting in a pub in which smoking iss allowed is aproximately like smoking five cigarettes each and every hour! Just imagine smoking that much? Second hand smoke is not only bothering it is also significantly health harming. The health risks of a non-smoker who is being exposed to second hand smoke on a regular basis is just as high as for a smoker.

The American Lung association names about 3.000 people who died from lung cancer as a result of second hand smoking in the year of 2004. They also talk of 35.000 deadly heart diseases as a result of second hand smoking in the same year. There have been more than 80 studies on second hand smoking in the United States. The results of those stuidies are basically the main reason why smoking has been prohibited in public places.

In the 90s most tobacco companies have been brought to trial as a result of a new anti-mafia-law. During those trials documents have been published that prove that the tobacco industry knew very well about the risks for smokers and second-hand smokers, though they denied it all the time. Those documents were the foundation for most of the anti-smoking laws that have been pushed through since the 90s especially for the prohibition of smoking in airplanes.

You must now understand that there is noone and nothing who wants to keep you from smoking out of spitefulness. It is just the only effective way to protect people from inhaling the harmful tobacco smoke involuntarily. And it protects not only non-smokers but also smokers, as smokers are being affected by second hand smoking just as non-smokers.

If you want to know more about Harmful Smoking Effects please feel free to read the section on how smoking can hurt you and your environment. Read More..