Ban Smoking, America!

Have you heard the news? A Gallup Poll released this week shows that 59 percent of Americans want smoking banned! Only 19 percent of those polled want smoking to become illegal, however.

Gallup Poll, based in Princeton, New Jersey, polled on smoking for the first time since 2001 this month. The telephone survey took place July 7-10 and the consensus was released shortly thereafter.

In 2001, only 39 percent of the United States wanted a complete ban on smoking in all public places. The twenty percent jump is significant. While 19 percent expressed desire for smoking to become illegal all together, that number only increased 5 percent since 1990.

We get it. Smoking stinks. It is a filthy, disgusting, horrible, and highly addictive vice. Smoking takes the lives of 1 out of every 5 Americans each year. That is 443,000 deaths! The number of cancers attributed to cigarette smoking is increasing. Smoking causes lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, stomach, cervical, and acute myeloid leukemia.

If smoking is banned from all public places, that leaves homes and vehicles the prime targets for puffing away. Still the debate about smoking around children being child abuse lingers. Can you consider lighting up in your own home? Would you want to?

The District of Columbia and twenty-seven states have passed smoking bans in some form. New York City's ban being the most extensive, stretching to most plazas and beaches.

Even with the significant increase in the desire for additional bans of smoking in public places, twenty-two percent of Americans polled reported smoking cigarettes in the last week. That number has remained virtually unchanged since Gallup began polling about tobacco use.

t is safe to say that Americans want pollution-free air. I can't say I blame them. But I'm not about to tell you to stop doing something you might thoroughly enjoy doing. Instead, make a switch and trash the foul odors, secondhand smoke, and filthy trash. Jump on The Safe Cig bandwagon and take your nicotine experience to a whole new level. In the process all those non-smokers around you might think you've kicked your habit and joined their ranks. You don't have to tell them otherwise, we won't!