DISCUSSION TEXT

SMOKING

Cigarette, until this time, is always being the largest debate ever. On the right side, which represent people who love health, saying that cigarettes are dangerous and should be disappeared. But, on the other hand, the smokers say that they cannot live without cigarettes, they will feel tired, their heads will be dizzy, and they cannot think normally when they do not smoke. How will cigarette issues be discussed by the two different sides? This article will present a debate that hasn’t been finished yet and try to give a little way out of the problem.

Said and proven that smoking is one of the world’s death factors. The experts say that there are at least 30 types of human disease caused by smoking. Why there is a collection of the diseases? You need to know that cigarette has 7000 chemical substances and 200 types of those substances have carcinogenic elements that can cause a variety of cancers such as lung cancer, bronchitis, nose faring, mouth cancer, esophagus, pancreas, bladder, kidney, and cervical cancer. It does not stop only there, the toxic substances contained in cigarettes can cause hypertension, increases the risk of stroke, osteoporosis, impotence, infertility, and early menopause.

Cigarette toxins derived from the smoke. Cigarette smoke that you see contains a variety of harmful substances and if you suck it consistently, then the diseases that I mentioned above, can infect your body. Harmful particles such as benzene, nicotine, cyanide oxidants, and ammonia would settle inside your longue and your body then leads to various types of diseases. Also, even though you are not a smoker, you should stay away from the active smokers. Because if you do not do that, then you could become a passive smoker who get three times the dangers than the active smokers. Those are the causes that lead to anti-smoking campaigns which have been done by people from various elements.

Of course, in addition to health effects, smoking is also a bad impact on the quality of people’s economy. In Indonesia, there are many poor men who sacrificed millions rupiah every year to buy cigarettes, while they are very difficult to find money to make a living.

Despite having hundreds of bad impact on the human life’s quality, cigarette still has many supporters in which this activity derived from the smokers and companies who annually produce millions of cigarettes. The smokers stated that they are very difficult to live without cigarettes. They consider that those are the source of inspiration, the way to release the fatigue, and giver of a peace to the mind. They are already addicted to cigarettes and choose not to eat rather than not smoking. Meanwhile, The companies argue that toxin produces the largest revenue to the country each year and there are thousands of people will lose their jobs when the government decided to close the cigarette factories.

Well, when we have taken the opinion of two different sides, now is the time for us to determine whether smoking is still being a feasible option or not. Does it make sense if we continue to permit smoking in Indonesia, while hundreds of millions people each day potentially poisoned caused by smoking? Does it make sense if we allow cigarettes to remain in Indonesia while we only defend the smokers who felt dizzy and could not find inspiration when they do not smoke? Does it make sense if we fight for the fate of thousands cigarette factory workers while there are hundreds of millions of souls are poisoned every day from smoking? In fact, the government is still able to provide jobs as a substitute for the work in a cigarette factory. Let us think the result in the wider of mind to conclude which one is the worst. When we have realized that smoking has adverse effects that are much higher than prohibiting the operation of the cigarette factory, then today, we should prevent and stop all activities associated with cigarettes.