Smoking: Anything But Good
My father started smoking when he was around 17 years old and in high school. Now, almost 35 years later, he is still smoking. Despite his several attempts to start and stop smoking, he can’t quite seem to quit completely. He’s not the only one though. You would think that because of the high prices people are forced to pay for cigarettes that it would deter him from wanting to smoke. However, when people are addicted to something such as smoking, quitting is never easy.
Trying to Deter a Problem
Many states have actually adopted policies which prevent people from smoking in public places. For example, the state of New York does not allow smoking in any restaurant or public facility. It’s actually nice to be able to go home and go out to eat with friends and family without having to request to be seated in the “non-smoking” section. However, while it has gotten rid of smoking indoors, it is still kind of unclear as to whether or not it has made a difference to the massive amount of smokers that can be seen huddled together outside trading cigarettes and lighters.
On the other hand, perhaps all of the creative television advertisements are finally starting to get to people. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was just recently designated a smoke-free campus. If you walk through the campus, you can actually see “no smoking” signs posted everywhere. Additionally, smoking will be banned at hundreds of North Carolina government buildings within the year. The thinking seems to be that if smoking is banned everywhere, that it will leave little or no place for smokers to go. There’s even talk of smoking being banned in personal vehicles because of the problems that other drivers have with being forced to breathe in other people’s cigarette smoke- not to mention the fact that smokers tend to litter (when they carelessly toss their cigarettes out the window onto the ground). Who knows, maybe one day we’ll be able to say that the United States is “smoke-free”…but that remains to be seen!
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