Smoking ban
There are
many people smoking for many reasons. Somebody smokes because of stress,
somebody smokes because of business, somebody smokes because of some
irresistible reasons. Therefore, this is the reason why that cigarette cannot
be ban in our nation. I have three aspects to tell that cigarette should keep
selling in Taiwan, first, health, cigarettes’ business and income from selling
cigarette.
You must wonder is
cigarette really has good influence on human’s body? The truth is “Yes.” Based
on the website called Live Science, they give five points that smoking also has
benefits and I will pick three of them to talk about. First, smoking lowers
risk of knee-replacement surgery. It is the study from the University of
Adelaide in Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis and
Rheumatism. Knee-replacement surgery was more common among joggers and the
obese, smokers rarely jog and they less likely to be morbidly obese. Next,
smoking lowers risk of Parkinson’s disease. The latest, well-conducted study
was published in a March 2010 issue of the journal Neurology. Researchers found
that the number of years spent smoking, more than the number of cigarette smoked
daily, mattered more for a stronger protective effect. Third, smoking helps the
heart drug clopidogrel work better. A study by Korean researchers in the
October 2010 issue of the journal Thrombosis Research builds upon work by
Harvard researchers published in 2009 that demonstrates the benefit of smoking
at least 10 cigarettes a day. It seems that something in cigarette smoke
activates certain protein called cytochromes, which convert clopidogrel into a
more active state.
According to Taiwan
Tobacco and Liquor Corporation, they announce that they have almost 7000
employees in their company. Moreover, they are not totally attach to
government. They open privately run, it means our citizens can in charge of the
company as well. By using “OT” which means operate transfer, more and more
citizens invest the company. Thus, if we choose to ban cigarette, stop selling
cigarette, they will cause a serious problem is that many people in the
company, no matter public servant or normal employees will face to lose their
job, half of them will have no jobs after banning cigarette. Consequently, we
cannot stop selling cigarette.
Health and Welfare Surcharge of Tobacco Products is the one of
the huge income from selling cigarette. Based on Health Promotion
Administration, they announce that the income from Health and Welfare Surcharge
of Tobacco Products is almost thirty billion in each year. 70 percent will
balance resources to the reserve funds of health insurance; 6 percent giving to
people who really cannot afford their health insurance; 5.5 percent will be use
at cancer’s prevention and cure; 3 percent to update medical facilities. The
rest of money will be use at Tobacco Hazards Prevention, rare disease and
helping related industry.
To sum up, we
cannot ban cigarettes so easily. From these aspect, cigarettes are such on of
important products in our country. No matter the buyers or the sellers, they
must have mutualism. Or we may encounter more serious problems like what I must
mentioned it may increase unemployment rate. Or some people cannot afford their
health insurance and if we ban cigarette, government could not help them
because they do not have income, they do not have money to help them , so we
cannot have smoking ban policy.
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