Smoking Effect Social Surrounding:
Not only does smoking affect oneself but also affects their social surroundings. Social surroundings are people or places people converse with or in. People begin to smoking for many reasons. Some reasons consist of stress, peer pressure, or even boredom. But in the end the choices that are made can ruin relationships in a person’s life. One big factor is that of secondhand smoking. Which is the inhalation of smoke from a non-smoker; this largely affects families because they see the other as a nuisance, bad role model, and a person who doesn’t care. Of course there will be friends that are comfortable with friends who smoke but then there is the group who is not comfortable with it. Leaving out that extra group shortens a person’s social circle and deprives them of relationships they may never have. Though this may all be of opinionated thought I believe that people should look into what I have said.
An article from Lawrence.com called ”Smoking may considerably alter social life” clearly demonstrates the effects on people’s social lives. In the 1970’s the government had instated a law to restrict smoking in some areas of the US. So people, who smoked, now have to smoke in designated areas with people who smoke too. They segregate smokers with the non-smokers with this law. So people who smoke are more acquainted with smokers than non-smokers.
"When you got there you were shoulder to shoulder with every other smoker in the airport," he says. "It was the most negative-I mean, it was just horrible. You didn't need to light a cigarette. You could just walk in and breathe heavily. That was the first time I really had the sense that I was a member of a despised class, seeing all these people shoved into that little glass-walled room."
It comes to show that people who choose to smoke are limited to the people they converse with because when they smoke they have to avoid all the others who do not smoke.
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References:
<http://www.livestrong.com/article/35821-health-improve-after-quit-smoking/>.
"Cancer Statistics Smoking and Cancer Statistics." Quit Smoking | Quit Smoking Support |
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2007/jan/04/smoking/
