1006_Ind4_S1

Curtis Hajec

Instructions: Now that your group has decided on an issue, you must demonstrate that there is a problem. You will turn in this research sheet completed with two articles attached that you showed that there is a problem

I. There is a problem in society today. That problem is: Smoking has become a big problem in today's society. Sure not everyone smokes, but those that do really put themselves at risk for future disease. But some may argue that is their body and they can do what they want to their body, and that is true. But it is the affect on other people that is the problem. Second hand smoke is a major problem, and hurts people just as much. The dangers of second hand smoke are just as dangerous just as actually smoking a cigarette ones self.

II. Facts that demonstrate that there is a problem are: (Two articles and bibliography must be attached)

In the world today, only 17 of the countries have any laws on banning public smoking, of 192 total countries. This is a very small number for a problem so large. But the one smoking is not the only one affected. Second hand smoke is just as much as a problem. Passive smoking is the cause of 1 out of every 100 deaths, and causes 165,000 deaths a year in children and 379,000 deaths in adults. Those numbers are ridiculously high numbers and not good. Now a days, 1,000 teens a day try smoking, and due to new chemical forms of nicotine, it is delivered to the brain more rapidly and effectively, setting off a crave for more. Right now, 13.6% of 10th graders smoke, up from 12.3% up 2009, but drastically lower from the peak high 30.4% of 10th graders in 1996. The beneficial effects of banning smoking are felt quickly because they rapidly reduce the number of heart attacks caused by "sticky" blood.

// Unknown. // "Nation Must Do More to Keep Kids Out of Smoking Pipeline." //USA// //TODAY//. 28 Dec 2010: A.6. //SIRS Researcher.// Web. 15 Feb 2011. // Unknown. // "Passive Smoking 'Causes 1 Per Cent of All World's Deaths'." //The Independent//. 26 Nov 2010: 6. //SIRS Researcher.// Web. 15 Feb 2011.