Is Smoking a Voluntary Addiction?

In America secondhand smoke is the number one cause of preventable health diseases. There are no questions that smoking has negative health effects. Anti-tobacco researchers have shown that inhaling secondhand smoke is more harmful than actually smoking.

Scientists said that smoking and secondhand smoke can affect people’s health, and smokers know that but they continue to smoke because they like the smoking process.

Eighty percent of the US population is non-smokers, and those 80% are affected by secondhand smoke which is particularly dangerous because the smoke does not have boundaries.

Most of people know that smoking should be prohibited that’s why they with a big effort want to move smokers and smoking away from people who do not chose to either smoke or inhale secondhand smoke.

Researchers discussed with numerous people about smoking and they found that many of them wanted to stop or were going to stop.

Recently, the Governor of California declared secondhand smoke a carcinogenic and a regulated contaminant.

Los Angeles also has implemented legislation for to regulate smoking in restaurants, city facilities, city beaches and currently pending in City parks. All these changes represent an effort to stop the incremental legislation and create a comprehensive health agenda for the City of Los Angeles.

Smoking is not protected by the constitution, but it is known that secondhand smoke harms an involuntary population, which has a constitutional right to clean air and a clean environment.