#20 Smoking and health
2010.03.17 Wednesday
こんにちは！
今日は“タバコ”と“健康”についてのessayを選んでみました。
私はタバコを吸わないので、近年、分煙が進んだりするのは嬉しいのですが、愛煙家の知り合いは、「息抜きできる時間が減った」などと嘆いています。
でも、タバコは決して身体に良いものではないですよね。
健康のため、禁煙するには良い機会かもしれません。
My father, who used to smoke two packets of cigarettes a day, quit smoking when I was a baby. At that time I put everything around me in my mouth. One day, he found me smiling proudly with my mouth full of something. He wondered what was in my mouth and noticed that the ashtray on the table was almost empty. He quickly opened my mouth and was astonished to find out that my mouth was filled with a lot of cigarette buts. It was my father succeeded in quitting smoking.
My father gave up smoking because he was afraid that his smoking could harm his daughter's health. Everybody knows that smoking can be extremely damaging to health, not only of smokers but also of someone around them. I think this is the worst thing about smoking. More and more Japanese people, however, have started to worry about their health and the heath of others lately. So the number of smokers has decreased and the number of no-smoking areas in public places has increased. I think this is a good trend.
On the other hand, Chinese people seem less concerned about their health than Japanese people. When I was in Beijing, China, I noticed that no smoking areas in public places were very rare and I hardly encountered a Chinese man who did not smoke. After seeing that smoking was prevailing in China, I was surprised when I read an article which reported that the leading cause of death among Beijing citizens was lung cancer, which dominated over any other diseases. What made frightened me was that lung cancer , was the main cause of death in both men and women. As far as I know, Chinese women hardly ever smoke because they consider women smoking to be immodest but a large number of them die from lung cancer. This prove that smoking can be badly effect on non-smokers health , too.
There are many disadvantages in allowing people to smoke. Buying cigarettes can bear on family budgets. Smoking can be a fire hazard. Tar can yellow the walls and ceiling of a house. But on top of that, we should be more sensitive to the bad effects on non-smokers' health derived from smokers' inconsiderate manner of smoking.
今日は“タバコ”と“健康”についてのessayを選んでみました。
私はタバコを吸わないので、近年、分煙が進んだりするのは嬉しいのですが、愛煙家の知り合いは、「息抜きできる時間が減った」などと嘆いています。
でも、タバコは決して身体に良いものではないですよね。
健康のため、禁煙するには良い機会かもしれません。
My father, who used to smoke two packets of cigarettes a day, quit smoking when I was a baby. At that time I put everything around me in my mouth. One day, he found me smiling proudly with my mouth full of something. He wondered what was in my mouth and noticed that the ashtray on the table was almost empty. He quickly opened my mouth and was astonished to find out that my mouth was filled with a lot of cigarette buts. It was my father succeeded in quitting smoking.
My father gave up smoking because he was afraid that his smoking could harm his daughter's health. Everybody knows that smoking can be extremely damaging to health, not only of smokers but also of someone around them. I think this is the worst thing about smoking. More and more Japanese people, however, have started to worry about their health and the heath of others lately. So the number of smokers has decreased and the number of no-smoking areas in public places has increased. I think this is a good trend.
On the other hand, Chinese people seem less concerned about their health than Japanese people. When I was in Beijing, China, I noticed that no smoking areas in public places were very rare and I hardly encountered a Chinese man who did not smoke. After seeing that smoking was prevailing in China, I was surprised when I read an article which reported that the leading cause of death among Beijing citizens was lung cancer, which dominated over any other diseases. What made frightened me was that lung cancer , was the main cause of death in both men and women. As far as I know, Chinese women hardly ever smoke because they consider women smoking to be immodest but a large number of them die from lung cancer. This prove that smoking can be badly effect on non-smokers health , too.
There are many disadvantages in allowing people to smoke. Buying cigarettes can bear on family budgets. Smoking can be a fire hazard. Tar can yellow the walls and ceiling of a house. But on top of that, we should be more sensitive to the bad effects on non-smokers' health derived from smokers' inconsiderate manner of smoking.
