Research Memo #3

On “smoking.ygoy.com” it states that 126 million nonsmoking Americans are directly affected by secondhand smoke in their homes, public places, vehicles or workplaces. Secondhand smoke harms people anywhere and every where. In homes smoke can seep into clothes and into the furniture in your house. So anyone that comes into your home gets all of the harmful chemicals into there lungs and clothes. It’s a big chain of harmful chemicals going around so everyone you’re around gets infected by it. Out of every 5 adults one of them is a smoker. But that one person can affect all of the other four around them with the cigarette that they are smoking.

            I found a video on YouTube and it is of a person smoking a cigarette and on the other end of the person smoking is another person with the same cigarette in there mouth and they inhale the smoke and then breathe it out. This is showing that every smoker is harming another human being by smoking around them. This video was made by a university in Thailand so this just tells me that smoking is a problem everywhere not just in the US. People need to get the facts about smoking all over the world so that everyone will realize the real harm behind smoking and secondhand smoke. At least there are other people looking at the smoking and the facts behind it.

            If everyone would just get on the internet and research secondhand smoke or cigarettes in general for 10 minutes they would find out a lot that they don’t know now. Smoking can harm everyone around them. As long as there is cigarettes there will be an extremely high rate of lung cancer. If smoking would stop then the rate of lung cancer would also decrease. Smoking is harmful so just look up the facts and spread them like rumors in high school.

Research Memo 3

Research Memo #2

Secondhand smoke is harmful to people of all ages and you can inhale it anywhere you are. Second hand smoke is a large problem in homes, cars, public places, and at work. You may not live with a smoker, but you are vulnerable to breathing it in almost anywhere you are. Secondhand smoke is worse than first hand smoke. You may think with firsthand you get all the chemicals and nicotine straight into your lungs, but they have a filter on the cigarette taking some of the chemicals out. When someone breaths in the smoke from the cigarette they have no filter all of the chemicals are in the smoke and get into there lungs.

The smoke that is inhaled from a cigarette directly into the lungs is far more concentrated than the diluted smoke from a burning cigarette or a smoker's exhalation. The EPA uses distorted evidence to stretch a policy that affects everyone rather than a limited population of smokers. In March UCLA did a survey and found that 78% of people believed that secondhand smoke was “very” or “somewhat” harmful. So if people know that it is harmful why are there still so many smokers that smoke around there children and just light up a cigarette wherever they are? UCLA also estimated that non-smokers, that live with someone who smokes, inhales smoke equivalent to a few cigarettes a year. This is saying even though you don’t smoke cigarettes by inhaling smoke you are basically smoking a little bit yourself. Adult smokers has dropped from 40% of people to about 25% now, that’s about 50,000,000 people, but Americans are still   smoking and harming everyone around them.

Secondhand smoke has never been something that people typically enjoy, and the dangers of breathing in secondhand smoke have gotten more attention over the years. By researching secondhand smoke it truly helps explain just how dangerous this threat is, if you’re a smoker, you should consider putting down that pack for good, if not just for you, then for those around you.

Smoking is harmful in its self, but by smoking around other people you are harming more than just yourself. Most people don’t actually realize the affects of secondhand smoke. I now plan on looking up more statistics on smoking and putting them out to my classmates so that they know how it harms them. They can take it and show it to people and the word will get spread around about how secondhand smoke directly affects every single one of us.

Research Memo 1

Hypothesis:

Why do smokers have no respect for other people?

The reason smokers have no respect for anyone besides themselves is they get the urge to smoke and then they pull out a cigarette and light it up wherever they are. They do not take the people around them into consideration and the harm that they are putting them in. Smokers are disrespectful to the people they are around by doing this. If they would just take the time to walk away from the group of people they are around or step outside rather than smoking inside it would make a big difference. I believe smokers need to have other things (whose around them and who they are harming) than getting nicotine into their system on their minds.

 

Context:

My target audience for this topic is smokers and young kids who have to live with smokers. I chose these respondents because they will be able to connect to my research topic the most and have the most helpful answers to my questions. My results are both reliable and valid because I have the correct audience for the project. Some of the answers may be baised because they were opinion questions just to see people's views on second hand smoke.

How many deaths does exposure to secondhand smoke cause a year in the U.S?	A) 10,000 - 13                   B) 50,000 -2 C) 75,000  -10                   D) 125,000 -
Which of the following are effects of secondhand smoke?	Checked one of them- 17 Checked two of them- 0 Checked three of them- 8
I secondhand smoke worse than firs hand smoke?	Yes - 15 No - 10
You breathe in 69 cancer causing chemicals when you breathe in cigarette smoke.	True - 5 False -  20
How many infants a year are killed by secondhand smoke?	Between 1,900 – 2,700 – 1 Between 50 – 100 – 20 Between 100 – 500 – 3 Between 3,000 – 3,500 – 1
Do you know you can possibly die or kill someone just from smoking cigarettes?	Yes – 10 No – 15

Data Analysis:

            My findings are exactly what I figured that I was going to end up with. People do not know the true harms of smoking around children, and how they affect everyone around them. The statement that shows this best is "You breathe in 69 cancer causing chemicals when you breathe in cigarette smoke." Five people said that this was true and twenty said it was false. In reality you do breathe in 69 cancer causing chemicals when you breathe in cigarette smoke. Fifteen people thought that you could not kill people by you smoking your own cigarettes. They may not die now but they could get a cancerous disease and die later on in life.

Conclusion:

            My hypothesis was in fact correct. Because a lot of the questions that I asked was answered incorrectly and that shows that smokers do not know the true effects of them smoking around other people.

 Follow Up:

            I will now start my hardcore research and pull out facts about secondhand smoke that people would not even realize was true about it. I want to let people know they are killing their loved ones by smoking in the house with them or smoking in the car with them. I have not changed my research question because of this, but I did change it right before this. The question that I want to research next is: How does secondhand smoke affect you differently than first hand?

Preliminary Links

http://www.cancer.org/index

This website provides multiple facts about secondhand smoke and how it affects people of all ages. It also states how you get cancer for smoking and offers treatments for you to stop smoking. The website also involves the community and tries to get more people to become smoke free and to not smoke around other people.

http://www.healthcommunities.com/quit-smoking/secondhand-smoke-facts-adults-children-pets_bht.shtml?c1=GAW_SE_NW&source=GAW&kw=effects_second_hand_smoke&cr5=7691080597

            Remedy Health Media owns this website and they are trying to explain to people what secondhand smoke is and its health effects. They are trying to inspire people to stop smoking inside and out. It states that cigarettes have a stale smell and it clings to things in your environment. Even if you do step outside to smoke it still gets on to your clothes and you bring it into the house.

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/healthy_living/smoking/hic_dangers_of_second-hand_smoke.aspx

The Cleveland Clinic has offices all over the country and they are putting out the facts about secondhand smoke and how it affects all of the people you are around. Some people are more vulnerable to smoke related illnesses than others so they can get diseases much easier and when they have to stay around a smoker they are more than likely going to get a disease.

http://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/tobacco/pages/Dangers-of-Secondhand-Smoke.aspx?nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&nfstatusdescription=ERROR%3a+No+local+token

            This website is owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics and they are telling the community how secondhand smoke affects children. They have no way of protesting whether their parent’s smoke around them or not so they have to deal with it. This website is trying to inform the parents of all the short and long term illnesses of passive smoke. 

Questions

I’d like to learn a lot more in depth on this topic because I have to live with a smoker and I feel that if I show them the statistics they will stop smoking around me. The questions that I would like to research are; why do smokers have no respect for other people? How does second hand smoke affect you differently then firsthand smoke? What laws are in effect in SC that limits the places where you are able to smoke? Which brand of cigarettes affect your lungs the worst? Where do the first signs of lung cancer start from secondhand smoke? The way we grow up will affect the rest of our lives.

Introduction

Do you like to breathe in air that has been infected with cigarette smoke? Well neither do I, but I have to live with it every day of my life. Smokers should not be able to smoke where ever they please because every time they light a cigarette they are putting more and more harmful chemicals into the air for everyone else to breathe in. Every time you breathe in air that has been infected by cigarette smoke you are breathing in 69 cancer causing chemicals. Because of this there should be certain places that you are allowed to smoke and places where smoking is banned. Smoking should be banned in all public restaurants and in the homes of smokers who have other people living with them. You may be thinking that people should be able to smoke in their own home, but when there are other people in the house you are making the air that they have to breathe in extremely dangerous.