Smoking

SMOKING

There are many teenagers who smoke cigarettes in our country. Certainly, cigarette has many negative effects to the smoker and can cause smokers especially teenagers get diseases. I am sure that most of us know that cigarette has many negative effects because there are many references which tell about those negative effects like internet, illumination from many departments, advertisement, and its packs.

We can find warning in the packs of cigarettes, if we pay attention to its packs. Smoking can cause cancer, heart attack, impotence, and pregnancy and embryo disturbance. That's the warning. Look at the text below and you will find the real warning in the packs of cigarettes.

"Merokok dapat menyebabkan Kanker,

serangan jantung,

impotensi,

dan gangguan kehamilan dan janin"

Although there are many references about the effect of smoking but there are still many smoker especially teenagers. Many smokers think beside cigarette can make them be true man, cigarette will not make them get diseases directly (based on smokers). And that's main factor which influence teenagers to smoke.

Our government feels difficult to forbid smoker to smoke because there are two sides about smoking. Beside cigarette can give many negative effects, cigarette has excise tax (bea cukai) which can help economy of our country. So, if we can't stop smoker to smoke, how to reduce the negative effect of smoking?

First, smoker have to reduce their smoking continuously.

And the second, smokers are forbidden to smoke in public area because it can disadvantage passive smoker.

Passive smoker is not direct smoker but passive smoker is someone who inhale smoke (asap) of cigarettes indirectly.

Presented By Ms. Lina Hidayatul Islamiyah on April, 8^th 2012.