Smoking Affects Everyone

Many groups, organizations, and unions work toward rights, insurance coverage, and more. Smoking affects these causes by increasing insurance premiums and affecting workmen rights while exposing those we come in contact with to the dangers of second and third-hand smoke.

Across all walks of life, spanning every industry and organization – smoking affects us all. The influence of big tobacco has infiltrated and affected most every arena including the shipping industry, colleges and universities, Hollywood, the medical and dental field, the music industry, food service, the political arena, and more.

Big Tobacco has either influenced shareholders, blinded employees, affected patrons, or negatively impacted the future of our youth in one way, or another. With the political backing and financial capabilities to extend their reach, tobacco companies have manipulated the odds and ensured their longevity in the lives of millions.

Groups, Unions, and Organizations Affected by Smoking

Smoking plays a significant role in social groups, unions, communities, and organizations. Unions, for example, are only as strong as their members. Members that are plagued by disease and/or poor health create a stigma among these unions. As unions represent such areas as workmen’s rights, healthcare, etc., members who smoke are a detriment to those fighting for these issues. Insurance premiums are much higher for those that smoke and create an imbalance in member groups fighting for corporate leaders to cover insurance premiums.

Organizations of Higher Learning are facing increased scrutiny when they do not implement smoking bans on campus. This is due to the increased health and safety risks to students, faculty, and visitors who do not smoke. It is argued that adult students have the right to smoke, however, students also have the right to not be exposed to harmful chemicals while pursuing their education, as well.

Below you will find a set of comprehensive guides that we have created to support different people and communities around the globe who want to quit smoking and inspire other people to help our cause of raising awareness of the dangers of smoking:

Some people can be more affected that others, especially when we take into consideration the daily routines and differences in the stress level among the different people. Among other indicators of the probability of becoming addicted to cigarettes, the occupation is among the most representative indicators (you can read this research to find out more about the general statistics). Below you will find our view about how smoking affects professionals and what can be done, to help people become tobacco-free:

Smoking Habits Across Professions 

Not only certain groups of people are in the risk group of being affected by the consequences of the cigarette smoking, but the whole ecosystem is affected by the tobacco industry as well. Read the articles below to learn how smoking and Big Tobacco impacts the society and environment.

How Cigarette Smoke Harms Animals – Hint: It’s not in the way you Think 

Our whole team here at VapingDaily.com works hard to help different groups understand how they are vulnerable to smoking and how their habits (or should we say “addiction”) affects them and people around them. Find more resources below and learn more about how smoking affect society:

Use Hobbies to Quit Smoking for the Last Time 

You can aslo learn more about minorities and smoking in our set of articles below:

A Reach Like No Other: Racial Minorities and Smoking

Risk Factors

Many groups and communities are faced with equal dilemmas, such as healthcare workers, policemen, firemen, and caregivers. Smoking results in more sick days taken, more hospital visits, as well as, exposing everyone these individuals come in contact with to the dangers of second and third-hand smoke. Caregivers may be increasing the risk of disease and poor health for those they are entrusted to look after.

Firemen who smoke undoubtedly expose children, who look up to them as role models, to a greater chance of becoming smokers, themselves. According to Pubmed.gov, children playing with cigarette lighters cause an estimated 100,000 fires in the US each year, and smoking alone causes billions of dollars in damages attributed to fires globally per year.

Police officers come into contact with numerous members of the general public each and every day. Officers who smoke while out on patrol are unable to wash extensively after every smoke, thus, exposing everyone they come into contact with to third-hand smoke. This residue carries equal risk of disease and poor health as smoking directly.

Why Get Involved?

It is important for union leaders, community representatives, and organization heads – as well as for members of these groups – to become involved because smoking affects us all. It affects the way groups operate as a whole, it affects the outcome of rights that are fought for, it affects those we serve, come in contact with, and that depend on us.

Quitting smoking now can reduce these risks to ourselves, and to others. It will strengthen our causes, strengthen our groups, and strengthen ourselves as individuals. Groups, unions, and organizations are only as strong as their members and their communities. By strengthening these, we strengthen our resolve and our group as a whole.

There are many ways to assist members in quitting. Offering nicotine replacement therapies, or condoning their use, will motivate individuals. Offering literature will also help by educating members on the value of quitting, and how it will strengthen themselves and their group as a whole. Demonstrating how smoking affects us all will help drive members toward abstinence, and begin a trend in smoke-free member organizations.