Smoking induces bad habits and temperament for many abusers. In the social situation of a school workplace, an abuser must often smoke a cigarette in order to emulate the typical extent of their personal addiction.
This can range between smoking a pack a day for pleasure and smoking strictly under a highly stressful basis. These temptations are difficult to break, particularly when given opportunities to smoke in a commonplace for exemplary smoking penalties. In effect, the controversy behind smoking lies within self-righteousness and economics, which renders difficult recovery and little hope for substance banning. The fact of the matter is, whether or not people should have the right to harm themselves is irrelevant when their actions have the potential to seriously harm others and create a liability for their actions. Under such consideration, this puts adolescent children at risk, whom still have the opportunity to live clean lives. A child may be completely ignorant to cigarettes at one point in their lives, but following a single confrontational exposure to the debris of a cigarette from a group of teenagers, could wind up making a fatal life decision based off curiosity and leading to addiction. In addition, those of any age with health problems could easily be affected by cigarette smoke. This could range between hyperventilation and heart attacks; all at the liability of a juvenile young adult. Having the ability to smoke anywhere on school property would leave no room to be devoted to safe areas for such people, and the ubiquitous issue of environmental concerns in accordance with the laziness of substance abusers could potentially result in a polluted institution inside and outside. This would mean that of any minute of any given day, there would always be some level of cigarette pollution lingering within the atmosphere. Not only does this privilege harm the physical health of others, it plausibly increases the amount of loitering around school grounds. This makes it difficult for students to navigate the school easily and to feel safe and accommodated. In addition, temptation and a greater amount of peer-pressure could factor into the intimidation that would oppress the students. Pollution also plays a major role because such elongated exposure to hostile fumes could be inimical to long-term growth and development, both physically and mentally. A similar occurrence in history includes the workplace damages brought upon children throughout the French Revolution, wherein many labourers lived short lives based on fallacies, and many became deformed or died in tragic ways due to disease.
Consequently, the physical waste supplied from the cigarettes elevate the pollution levels in a physical sense, which expands the necessary clean-up and waste deposit for the school. This makes the environment much less desirable and visually and healthily appealing. Furthermore, second-degree smoking can be just as detrimental as first-degree smoking, which could result in innocent people being succumbed to inhale unwanted fumes--with some reactions obviously having a more dramatic effect than others. Ultimately, these factors result in a lazy community with increased garbage and pollution rates both atmospherically and aesthetically. As for the effect smoking exposure has individually and on peers, students often manifest their altercations and changes within their schoolwork. A greater presence of peer-pressure is proposed, which can create stressful situations. Because of the fact that any student would strive for a more popular reputation and public image, many would succumb to these ways and need to seek help. For those who do not, behavioural concerns become apparent inside and outside of class. The extremities include suspension and expulsion, but are not limited to the two. Poor grades, work ethic and cooperation are many strong indicators of a student negatively affected by cigarettes in a behavioural aspect, whether or not this is from first-degree inhalation. Pressing on, the behaviour of the students can also increase temptation within the school social environment. The increased cigarette relevance within school could possibly attract many curious victims through verbal recommendation and physical advertisement. This proves to be a distraction for the students from their schoolwork, and could potentially begin many new addictions. Conclusively, cigarette usage and availability remains a contentious issue complicated by business. Though strongly hindering the development of children and young adults, cigarettes remain to be legal. Despite the liability issues, even simply considering schools to be cigarette-inducing causes a variety of predicaments. Health concerns are the obvious side-effects, closely followed by physical and visual pollution from the cigarettes. A greater accommodation for loitering is also present and prohibiting clear navigation for the students. In addition, peerpressure is an inevitable outcome behind such a change. Whilst self-righteousness and legal ability seem to decide this controversy, once peers are negatively affected as well, there is no controversy. Ergo, the availability of smoking within school systems is more detrimental than beneficial, and schools should never become accustomed to such an
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