In respond to this article: http://therealsingapore.com/content/straits-times-forum-singapore-should-ban-everyone-smoking-2018
Ban smoking at 2018. Haha. The author is just one big brainless person. Smoking is a habit that is not necessary which I do agree. But even though its not a necessary habit, it is still a habit that is adopted by humans long time ago. Everybody have the right to start smoking at their legal age because its their own problem. Same for religions, automobiles and many others. Temple burn offerings incenses, can you stop them? Automobile produces unwanted fumes, can you ban them? Factories produce waste materials, can you ban factory activities? Whenever coming up with an idea or suggestions, please do consider about everyone and not just a particular group of people.
Let me simply enlighten you people who are so concern about 2nd hand smoke causes harmful result such as cancer while easily omitting the fact that there are even more harmful substances produced everyday in life. you can choose to believe and agree or don't believe and disagree but these are just information that I have found. Please, I use the word INFORMATION not the word FACT, so its up to you to decide.
Secondhand smoking already have many researched done on it to prove that it can cause many harmful result similar to a smoker. But in the real argument, there actually had no significant prove of such things. Many researchers had also found out that secondhand smoking have no effect whatsoever that is any near related to a direct smoker. But with organisations that strongly emphasized on their prove of negative effects, many flawed results and figures turn up. In another word, in order to make their prove legit, the organisations actually give out false figures and results to cover the real truth. Here is a piece of Youtube video that you should watch and decide what is real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6WITuzkS_g
Now since these people are so concern of health and fresh air, why not let me bring you into a world that you may even ban everything in life. The 1st one is the all so common Air-conditioner. As many many people understand, Air-con is used to keep an area cool and comfy. But many people doesn't know that Air-con can cause alot of harmful effects such as affecting the respiratory system, transmiting infectious respiratory diseases and Air conditioning is associated with chronic rhinitis and pharyngitis, throat irritation and hoarseness. So since it is harmful and air-borne, can everybody agrees that I suggest to ban Air-conditioning at work offices, homes, public malls, public transports, cars and etc....? http://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/health-and-fitness/201007053811/air-conditioning/health/risks/
The second big problem, I believe everybody know, and that is air pollution caused by automobiles. Why are they a big problem? Exhaust from automobiles contain Unburnt Hydrocarbon, Nitrogen Oxide, Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide. Why is all these being harmful to humans and to our mother earth? Take a look at this article: http://www.hopshop.net/tours/ecoauto_tour/healthpage.php . Even though organisations made effort in trying to reduce the pollutant that an automobile produce, it is in fact of minimal result. Even though we can see that lesser dark fumes are produced, but the real killer pollution remain relatively unchanged. This article here shows all effort put in to reduce pollutant from automobile are not enough: http://www.ehhi.org/reports/exhaust/ . So can i say that what we don't see means it's safe? Can I please ban automobile from use? No problem telling them though, cause it'll still be a good decoration for your house. Just be sure not to start the engine.
This next topic that I am gonna touch on is gonna surprise you till your pants drop. Every humans need to eat right? And not everybody can eat raw food for their life isn't it? Well in order to prepare food, what do we need to do? If you are following me, you are on the right track. COOKING, yes, your eyes are not playing tricks on you, it's COOKING can cause a huge amount of pollutant to be produced. These pollutants are 20% higher than expected guidelines. And why are cooking considered a hazard to health? Here's the link: http://environment.about.com/od/pollution/a/stovepollution.htm . So since cooking is such hazard, why not we just stick to eating all raw and ban cooking? Anyway, eating raw vegetables and fruits can also save many animals from dying from our need to eat right?
So for those who have read this, what do you think about right now? Especially those who are really in concern about their health, are you going to change the world for the better by eliminating air-con, automobile and cooking from your life? Or you still think that as long as it is under control, it would be fine? If you are decide for eliminations, then I wish you best of luck and do remember to share us your success story if there ever is one. If you think that being under control would be fine, then please do show some concern to those who are already smoking. We do not deny that smoker can somethings be inconsiderate by littering or smoking anywhere they want to. But the fact is not every smokers are the same. Would it be fair for those who are a nice smokers to face the same consequence as the bad smokers?
This is a world filled with millions of people, not only just one person or a group. When you talk about banning smoking, are you really concern about health and environment or simply just your own benefits?
So please do consider looking at yourself in the mirror and reflect on yourself before you talk about inconsiderations.
Skyler
TRS Contributor