Smoking should be banned from public places. Studies show that smoking can lead to cancer. Not only does this put the smoker’s life at risk‚ it also affects the lives of non-smokers‚ including pregnant women. Smoking all together is a dangerous thing to do. It began thousands of years ago with the use or tobacco in South America (Libal 11). No one knew about the long-term health effects of smoking tobacco before the twentieth century. It was decades of cigarette use before society began to realize
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Smoking is a form of addiction depending on the sedative effect of nicotine on the brain and nervous system. There are lots of reasons why people start smoking. The main reasons are peer group pressure‚ feeling left out while friends’ smoke and trying to fit in with the crowd‚ stress at home‚ work‚ school‚ trying to attract attention‚ act cool or become popular‚ and calm down their nerves. Firstly‚ smoking impacts almost all aspects of a person’s health. Smoking causes diseases like asthma‚ and
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ore and more countries decide to ban smoking in all public places including restaurants and coffee shops. Despite of all evidences that smoking causes lung cancer and other severe conditions‚ there is still a lot of smoking citizens in our society. Should the government prohibit all these people from smoking in public places? In my opinion it should certainly do this. First and foremost‚ as we know smoking in crowded places is harmful not only to person who carries cigarette. All people standing
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Smoking Ban in Public Facilities By: Emily Peace What do you think of when you see someone smoking in a public area? Do you think they are really thinking about the people around them? Do you think they know that they are harming the people around them? I don’t think they do‚ but we know they are. Smoking in public facilities should be banned because it influences children‚ it causes litter and odor‚ and it causes second-hand smoking. Smoking influences children because when they see adults
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Avery Parker Smoking Bans Essay English 1301 Wooldridge 06 August 2012 Banned Against Smoking Smoking has always been a bad habit for most people‚ some more than others. Regardless of awareness that smoking damages their health‚ smokers could not easily give up on smoking due to physical and mental addiction‚ stress‚ and peer pressure. Dozens of localities and a number of states have enacted sweeping smoking bans. To many people tobacco smoke is considered as air pollution. Smoking outdoors is
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disadvantages of smoking Smoking is one of the worst things kids and adults can do to their bodies. But it is widespread in China‚ even some of the high school students are smoking now. I think we should tell more people about the effects of smoking. Here are some disadvantages which I have seen‚ read‚ or heard about smoking before. Smoking affects your own bodies’ health. In my family‚ my dad and most of my uncles smoke. It has been almost 20 years since they have started smoking. This long a
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Banning Smoking in Public Places Should the people decide to ban smoking from public places? Today people smoke and don’t realize of their surroundings. People who smoke are inconsiderate of those who don’t smoke. Don’t non-smokers have the right not to be secondhand smokers? Smoking can do lots of harm to the person smoking as well as the nonsmoker. A person inhaling or smelling smoke will have the same effect as if they were smoking; this would be considered as secondhand smoke. Tobacco smoke
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Smoking kills millions every year‚ even those who have never smoked in their life. Secondhand smoke is a major cause of death to adults and children but it can be stopped. Because of this‚ smoking should be banned from all public places. You may think that our country has done enough to stop public smoking. In New York‚ “…a divided City Council passed a bill banning smoking in outdoor‚ public areas…”(Adams 13). Opponents believe that banning it from parks and beaches is enough but more can
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Argument Essay March 4‚ 2011 Smoking in public places has been a controversial topic for many years now. Some agree and some just disagree. A separate smoking section in restaurants just is not enough. Smoking in public places should be banned and illegal because it’s bad for the environment‚ it has a dangerous effect on people’s health‚ and it has a bad influence on children. Firstly‚ smokers think that smoking just affects their health‚ but they are wrong. Not only
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The question I ask is‚ would the banning of smoking increase the overall health of Americans? HYPOTHESIS I believe at the end of this study I will find that smoking is the root of many of America ’s greatest health issues. As well the fact that limiting or completely eliminating exposure of Americans to second hand smoke would greatly increase the health of all Americans. I believe this change would happen very rapidly following the ban of smoking in public areas. METHODOLOGY In order to conduct
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