{"id":6669,"date":"2020-02-22T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2023-03-11T22:59:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:59:26","slug":"should-smokers-who-become-parents-be-forced-to-quit-smoking-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6669","title":{"rendered":"Should smokers who become parents be forced to quit smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Smoking has been a huge and hot\ntopic currently. Thanks to our advanced technology, people nowadays know a lot\nabout the advantages and disadvantages of smoking cigarettes. The topic today\nis about if parents should be forced to quit smoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I strongly believe that\nsmoker-parents should be forced to quit smoking. Take Hong Kong as an example,\nHong Kong is a civilized city and people have the liberty to do anything they\nwant if it&#8217;s not against the laws. Then people may say that they have the right\nto smoke as a parent. You have the right to smoke. Right. But then what about\nyour child? Does he\/she have the right to choose whether they want to fill\ntheir lungs with second-hand smoke or not? No. Then it means that you are\nactually taking away your loved ones&#8217; personal rights. Even if you argue that\nthey don&#8217;t mind, what about ones&#8217; health conditions? <s>.<\/s>\nI&#8217;m sure you would really be concerned and down if your family members are\ngetting really sick, right? Having parents forced to quit smoking is not just\nabout the parent&#8217;s own good, it&#8217;s also about protecting others&#8217; right.\nRemember, smokers are only the minority, non-smokers are the real majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talk about the parent&#8217;s problem.\nCommonly, we know that there will be some big problems physically when you are\naddicted to smoking. You might want to take all the responsibility and you\nstill think that it is not crucial to force smoker-parents to quit smoking.\nThink about your child. He or she might be so worried about you and they can&#8217;t\nconcentrate a lot, and there will be mental disorders here and there. It is not\njust about yourself. All parents love their kids. Although they might love them\nin different ways, there is still something that would always be kept\nconstant&#8212;-it&#8217;s that they don&#8217;t want their child to be hurt, sick or down\nbecause of them. What if the parent died of diseases? I&#8217;m sure the young child\nwill be affected whole life long. Look at some extreme but common cases.\nPregnant mother kept smoking. What&#8217;s the big deal about it? Scientifically, the\nchild&#8217;s brain will be damaged permanently or that they might miss some body\nparts when they are born. The child is innocent. The child is innocently hurt\nbecause of the selfishness of his or her mother! How cruel it is! Smoking as a\nparent is against the ethical morality of humanity and thus smoker-parents\nshould be forced to quit smoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, about the problem of ones&#8217;\nchild mentally and psychologically. If a child has seen his or her parents\nsmoke so frequently, their mind will give them a signal that smoking is totally\nokay. Since this kind of thought has been planted deep inside their young\nhearts since they were small, it won&#8217;t change the mindset of the kids however\nthe teachers teach them when they are bigger. These kids will end up smoking.\nBut as I know, most parents don&#8217;t want their kids to smoke like them because\nthey know how addictive and bad it is. However, it&#8217;s already too late to\nregret. So why did you start it on your own? People always like to give excuses\nlike that smoking is irresistible and addictive so they can&#8217;t quit smoking.\nYep, and that&#8217;s the reason why we should enforce a law to FORCE parents to quit\nsmoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forcing smoker-parents to quit\nsmoking is crucial for the sake of the health of children nowadays and for the\nsake of the mindset of the society. Therefore, smokers who become parents\nshould definitely be forced to quit smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Smoking has been a huge and hotopic currently. Thanks to our advanced technology, people nowadays know a loabout the advantages and disadvantages of smoking cigarettes. The topic todais about if parents should be forced to quit smoking.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>I strongly believe thasmoker-parents should be forced to qui.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6669\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s2","schoolyear-77"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}