Women Health and Environment

It is quite easy to find some people who are smoking in a public area. But smoking itself is still in a public debate. It means that some people think smoking gives advantages and other people think smoking is something bad.

Some people concur with smoking because it has some advantages. Firstly, smoking habits can rise our national financial.
When people consume cigarettes, the cigarette factory will produce more cigarettes. If there are more cigarettes sold, so the factory will get more profit too and it can be a chance for the factory to develop their business to international markets. When the factory reaches the international market and other countries import some cigarettes from Indonesia, they must pay some taxes for Indonesia. Automatically, the taxes will be our national income. The government also bans the use of machines in the cigarettes factory for doing their industry, thus this policy cause the factory takes so many employee. If so many people work there, at least it also provides some work – fields for our society.
Secondly, for the smokers itself smoking makes them relax, get some inspirations, and have the self satisfaction. In some cases, when people are bored or nothing to do or perhaps feel stressed, they usually take some cigarettes for consuming and unintentionally they will get their own inspiration. Again, when the smokers are nervous and again they take some cigarettes, slowly but sure their nervousness will reduce. Some smokers pretend that smoking can make them more manly than usual so it affects their self – satisfaction. Those are the opinion of the smokers and it really happens to them.

On the other hand, people dispute with smoking because it is bad for our life. Smoking decreases our society health quality.
First, for the active smokers, the chemical substances can make them addicted and it is hard for the active smoker to stop this habit. The smoke will be inhaled by the passive smokers and if it happens continuously it causes serious risks on the passive smokers rather than the active smokers do. When someone is smoking, the smokes which consist of tar, CO and nicotine are inhaled into their lung and some particles of those substances are left in the lung. If it happens continuously too, the smokers’ lung will be infected with some breathing system diseases, or another kind of diseases like impotence, cancer, pregnancy obstacles, etc. Next, the smoke as the byproduct of smoking can cause air pollution to the environment. Because the smell of the smoke is bad, it can make everyone who does not like the smell uncomfortable. For the environment, the amount of CO as one of the substances of the smoke has the bad effect for global warming because when the amount of CO increases, so that is the process of global warming. Third, people still debate whether it is “kosher” or “forbidden”. Cigarettes contain pig fat which tends to be a forbidden thing for Muslim. Some of the substances of the cigarettes cause addiction and on another hand, Islam ban Muslim for doing something too much. The next reason is smoking decreases the smokers productivity. If they work in area with Ac inside, they must go out of that are for smoking, and automatically they leave their work, thus it can decrease their productivity.

Based on the for and against arguments above, we can conclude that smoking might have its own advantages and disadvantages. It is just your own choice whether you want to smoke or not.