Reducing lung cancer deaths

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

The Australian Government has recognised the overwhelming deaths that smoking has brought upon the citizens in Australia and around the world. They have tried to reduce these deaths by:
• raising the prices of cigarettes;
• putting horrifying pictures that smoking can bring on the packets;
• having commercials that showed the outcomes and effect smoking leads to;
• having a place where smokers can call to try and quit;
• selling nicotine gums, nicotine sprays and inhalers so the smokers can slowly stop their obsession to smoke;

• making it socially unacceptable to smoke in most areas;
• and most importantly having schools teach, tell and show students that smoking is bad for the health.
• There is also an ‘earth day’ which is when people turn off electricity for a few hours; a ‘walk to school’ day’ in primary schools; and more available public transport which mean less pollution in the air.
Since this help from the Australian Government was implemented, the number of lung cancer deaths had decreased. It will be some time before there is a big reduction of these deaths around Australia as well as all over the world.

ME

To reduce the spread of lung cancer in Australia even further, I’d have everyone who doesn’t already walk to close places and catch public transports, to do just that. The places that are one hundred kilometres radius from their home should be traveled by foot, bike, scooter, etc. and not by car but of course, the ambulance, fire engines, police cars, trucks and industrial vehicles –all the necessary ones- are allowed to drive. They can use the car when they are going to faraway places.
Another suggestion would be that all the industries closed down for two days every month. This way the pollution they make would at least be slightly reduced and the workers can have some more days off. Also, the trucks which they may have would not be about, so less pollution there too, as well as the workers driving to this place if they live far.

The points I suggested involved around reducing air pollution which only causes 1% of lung cancer deaths but it would make a slight difference to the death rate. It would save some people’s lives in Australia. As a bonus, this also helps with the global warming because greenhouse gas is reduced too.