Smoking Should Be Banned In All Public Areas

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Ban Smoking In Public Areas



Have you ever been to a bar or a public function and wished that the person in front of

you would just put out that cigarette? It just seems like in today’s world everywhere you

go you see someone puffing away from a nasty cigarette. It gets to be really disgusting

after a while, especially when a person like myself doesn’t smoke at all. With all the health

problems and sickness in this world, who wants to worry about second-hand smoke?

Therefore, smoking should be banned in all public areas.

Smoking damages the health of non-smokers. Second hand-smoking is one of the

leading causes of death. One in eight related smoking deaths in the United States is from

second-hand smoke. Someone that smokes has no right to put my health at risk. For

someone to choose to put toxic chemicals into his or her body and damage it doesn’t

necessarily give them the right to to do the same to my body. A non-smoker has the right

to live and not have his or her life cut short because of someone else’s desire to smoke.

Second, smoking in a public area exposes young innocent children to cigarettes.

Therefore, they see young adults, family members, or even role models, and think it’s ok

to smoke. As you can see, this isn’t the kind of example for children to live by. Children

need us more than anything. In this world we are their role models. It’s our job to set

the standard in order for them to believe that smoking is no good.

Also, smoking damages our environment. The growing, processing, and smoking of

tobacco leaves a negative impact on our local and global environments. The growing of

tobacco involves the use of large amounts of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. Many of

these are toxic and some contain known carcinogens (cancer-causing agents).

In less developed countries the use...