By : wulan, dini, zizah, bayu, ayu, fahmi, dini, dwi
The purpose of this paper is to explore the tight relationship between Indonesian and cigarette. It will define about the disadvantages from smoking that have many negative impacts for people, such as financial problem, education, and the important one is health problem. It will also discuss about the suggestion for Indonesian that smoking is extremely harmful and pose a threat for people’s life in the future.
Smoking is one of the serious problems in the world, especially in Indonesia. The number of smokers is getting increase every year. Everybody smokes, including teen, adult, men and women. Although it has been clear stated on the package of cigarette that smoking can cause heart attack, pregnancy problem, impotence, etc and everybody knows it, but they keep smoking without thinking it over the drawbacks resulted from smoking itself. The government also has advertised and shown how bad the effects of smoking are in televisions and radio, but again, people still smoke. The government should think other ways to solve this problem. In Europe, beside the government make a law not to smoke in public, it also increases the prices of the cigarette. It may be more effective in reducing the number of the smokers in the world. People will think twice before they buy a cigarette that has the same price as one month payment in school, for example. In this paper, the disadvantages of smoking that can give bad effect for the human life especially for Indonesian. The solution for those problems will be discussed here too.
The first disadvantage caused by smoking is financial problem. According to Carry, many people are wasting money on cigarettes. The more common smokers are coming from poorer household than wealthier ones. It really gives bad impact for their families (Carry : 2004). Cigarette has a quite expensive price, of course people or smoker has to use their money to buy it. Unconsciously, they have spent their money too much everyday just to buy cigarettes. In fact, the money itself can be used for other useful things rather than buy some pack of cigarettes, moreover for those who are living hand to mouth and underprivileged. It is so pathetic seeing many examples of poor households who are keep smoking, while their family are in need of money or food. It is so lavish and selfish, isn’t it? It will be wiser if he think twice before deciding buying the pack of cigarette.
The second disadvantage is seen from education value. Smoking is one of the vital things that can pose a threat for our daily life. That habit can really influence the attitude or even style of teenagers or children nowadays. Actually, those who are smoking truly realize that it is bad for education since it can be imitated by the youth especially young children. Unfortunately, they always underestimate it and let it be. Based on the data from BPS or Indonesian central statistical agency, the number of smokers in Indonesia is the third largest in the world. English also said that the children of the smokers are likely to become smokers themselves than those of non-smokers (English : 2009). Those are indirectly stated that Indonesia has become so close to cigarettes. The effect, smoking can be just like the contagious disease which spread out easily from their parents or relatives.
Indonesian smokers = 65 million or 28 % of population (225 billion stem of cigarette per year)
And the last drawback is health problem. It is a major problem of the smoking habit. Our ear must be very familiar of the health problem caused by smoking. When people smoke, they consume the toxin from cigarette indirectly. That is what make smoking become so dangerous. The most severe effect is other people who are known as passive smokers will get the worst impact because when they breathe, they inhale the cigarette smoke from the smokers. In addition, James also stated that regular smoking was mostly associated with long-term consequences, such as increased risk of cancer, addiction, and passive smoking. Initial smoking was associated with more short-term disadvantage such as nausea and breathing problem (James, 1989). One researcher has described cigarette smoking as causing "a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lower airways."(Doll 901-911) When we breathe, air enters the upper airway through the nose and mouth, where the air is filtered, warmed and humidified. The inhaled air travels though the trachea to the lungs. Inside the lung there is a main stem called the bronchus. Indonesian Central Statistical Agency also said that there are 400 million people per year are dead because smoking in Indonesia. It means that the smokers never care about their health condition although they have got many reminders from various parties.
References
Balding, John., Harris, Dunchan., James, Charles. 1989. World year book of education: Health Education. London: Bidles Ltd, p. 24
English, John. 2009. Kill the Addiction : Stop Smoking : without Quitting. USA : Outskirts Inc, p. 21
Carry, James. 2004. Up in Smoke. Third Way Vol. 28 no. 1 , pp 34
http://www.blurtit.com/q536156.html (January, 2012)
http://ezinearticles.com/?Disadvantages-of-Smoking&id=1366480 (January, 2012)
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