VIEWS AND OPINIONS OF PASSIVE SMOKING

Views and Opinions of Passive Smoking

Abstract

The paper is to estimate deaths from passive smoking in employees of the hospitality industry as well as in the general workforce and general population of the United Kingdom. Design Calculation, using the formula for population attribute proportion, of deaths likely to have been caused by passive smoking at home and at work in the UK according to occupation. Sensitivity analyses to examine impact of varying assumptions regarding prevalence and risks of exposure. Setting National UK databases of causes of death, employment, structure of households, and prevalence's of active and passive smoking.

Table of Content

Chapter One: Introduction4

Chapter Two: Literature Review9

Chapter Three: Methodology20

Study population20

Prevalence of passive exposure to tobacco smoke20

Risks associated with exposure to tobacco smoke21

Mortality from target conditions22

Statistical methods22

References24

Chapter One: Introduction

Everyone knows that smoking is bad for health but even then every 5th person in this world smokes. Out of almost 6.5 billion people in this world 1.2 billion people are regular smokers. Smoking is silent killer and every year 5.1 million people die because of smoking around the world. Smoking is not only harmful for your own health but it is also harmful for people around you like your family members and friends. According to recent study almost 600,000 people die every year worldwide due to passive smoking ( death rate of passive smoking is 60000 every year). Second hand tobacco smoke kills those people and almost 35% affected by passive smoking are children. The victims of passive smoking pay the price for the health destroying behavior of others, especially their own family members. 40 % of children, 35 % of women and 33 % of men were exposed to second hand smoke of tobacco. Half the deaths caused by passive smoking among the women and other half among children and men.

Passive smoking cause many diseases like lungs cancer, heart disease, asthma and lower respiratory infections. Children exposed to second hand smoke most likely happen at home. This is really sad because if you are smoker then you are big threat for the life of your own children and wife and other family members. Government should need to take strict measures against smoking; smoking should be discouraged by increasing tax on cigarettes or by passing and enforcing smoke-free laws for public. Cigarette smoke contains about 4,000 different chemicals which can damage the cells and systems of the human body. These include at least 80 chemicals that can cause cancer (including tar, arsenic, benzene, cadmium and formaldehyde) nicotine (a highly addictive chemical which hooks a smoker into their habit) and hundreds of other poisons such as cyanide, carbon monoxide and ammonia.

Every time a smoker inhales, these chemicals are drawn into the body where they interfere with cell function and cause problems ranging from cell death to genetic changes which lead to cancer. This is why tobacco smoking is a known or probable cause of approximately 25 diseases. According to WHO figures, smoking is responsible for approximately five million deaths ...