...I am under pressure”. They smoke everytime, everywhere and can not give up smoking. Without holding a cigarette, they will feel uncomfortable like loosing a best friend. They think that smoking is a good leisure activity and somehow can also be good for their health. However, other people think that smoking should be banned due to its negative effects. Opponents of banning smoking claim that smoking undoubtedly helps them to relax, for some people, it even improve their concentration. However, a large number of research studies show that smoking increases people’s likelihood of developing certain diseases (compared with people who have never smoked) and causes earlier death. Thus, if people never began smoking, the prevalence of those smoking-attributable diseases would decline, and life expectancy would increase. The medical research also finds that ceasing to smoke improves health. The risks of many smoking-attributable diseases decline after quitting, although a smoker does not have the same health as someone who has never smoked. Opponents also maintain that smoking is the smokers choice, and they will pay for their health problems. However, such an argument ignores the fact that there are many people around them when they are smoking. Studies show that secondhand smoke—the inhalation of smoke by someone other than the smoker, sometimes referred to as environmental tobacco smoke or passive smoking—has also been linked to a number of illnesses. Among newborn and children,...
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...10/21/2014 Cigarette Smoking Should Not Be Banned Every time one of those anti-smoking commercials come on tv, it’s always questionable about how people can still continue to smoke after seeing something so graphic. Especially the one where the woman is in the bathroom, and her face starts to basically peel off. So gross! Why would someone still want to smoke, knowing that it completely destroys their body? Maybe, because people know that those commercials are just scare tactics, and that someone’s face is not literally going to peel off from smoking. Smoking, just like drinking, or even driving, is risky, but it’s also a choice. They would never ban driving, even after all of the deaths caused every day. They definitely wouldn’t try banning alcohol again, even after all the deaths it still causes. So, why should they ban smoking? Smoking is a personal choice(Jeffery, 2). It doesn’t alter the state of mind like drugs or alcohol(contrary to what some people may say). If anything, the only person being harmed, is the person inhaling the smoke. Cigarettes don’t only contain toxins. They contain nicotine, which isn’t harmful, but is very addictive, just like caffeine, and there are millions of people out there who are definitely more addicted to their morning coffee or soda than there are people who smoke cigarettes. Smoking can be harmful, but usually in only excessive amounts, just like junk 2 food, or soda, or anything else in the world. Should they start banning Mcdonalds...
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...Intro: History of Smoking debate in Australia Discussion of first article * Lack of emotional reasons usually associated with smoking * Use of enforceability the main reason presented most logically * Punch line offering a different argument Discussion of cartoon * Humour * Both sides Conclusion Federal law bans smoking in all Australian Commonwealth government buildings, public transport, airports and international and domestic flights. All states are also subject to the plain packaging laws and health warnings of cigarettes and the cost of cigarettes has markedly increased to persuade people not to smoke. There are also varying laws across the states relating to smoking. For Victoria, smoking is banned in all restaurants and bars and enclosed spaces but has been allowed in public spaces. This issue arose in the media when a councillor on the Melbourne City Council sought to have smoking banned in all public spaces. The Age editorial (February 1 2013) ‘Smoke-free should not mean an outright ban’sets out its argument against banning smoking in public spaces is a dispassionate and logical way. What is most apparent about the editorial in its refusal to outline what smoking might do if inhaled by passers-by suggesting that the emotional and medical arguments about smoking are ‘done and dusted’ and most people accept that smoking is bad for health. Instead, the article puts forward the argument that smoking in public spaces in ‘unenforceable’. This gives...
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...Topic: Smoking should be banned permanently Name: Course: Instructor’s Name: Date: 30th May, 2012 Outline * Title Page * Introduction * Thesis statement * Body * Reasons as to why smoking should be banned permanently. * Conclusion * References Introduction. Smoking develops slowly and becomes a hard to drop habit when one becomes addicted. Smoking has a lot of disadvantages and impacts negatively on the smokers’ finances. Thesis statement: This paper seeks to define the reasons as to why I believe smoking should be banned permanently Reasons why belief smoking should be banned permanently. In my view, smoking should be prohibited entirely as the dangers associated with the habit are numerous and the disadvantages by far surpass perceived benefits of smoking. Firstly, smoking has adverse effects on health. Smoking can cause cancer of the lung, bronchitis and diseases of the heart. This leads to high mortality rates in a country (Bearman, 2011). Studies have also found that smoking contribute to impotence among smokers. Secondly, smoking is a hugely expensive habit. The cost to an individual smoker is highly significant. For instance, a person smoking two packets a day smokes over 700 packets in one year. Assuming that a pack costs $6, the individual would spend up to $4,200 per year. There are also indirect expenses incurred due to lost productivity and in health care. Thirdly, the habit of smoking is highly addictive. Nicotine contained in...
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...Smoking is a habit of many people in the world. It is known that it is a very damaging way of living, but still there are people that do not consider that as a problem. Especially the fact that kids are smoking and don't realize the harm that they cause to themselves is very concerning and a solution is required. The kind of the solution has a very important role, that's why is being discussed for years which is the appropriate way and the key for a successful outcome. The government in India wants to provide a bill banning advertisements of Tobacco Companies. There are some arguments in favor of the ban, analyzing the positive points in this situation. About the question if this action of government has the right to intrude into...
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...For many years people have been smoking and other people have been complaining about it. It’s been a continuous war against why or why not smoking should be allowed in public places. On one hand, you can go outside your home and say have a drink with some friends at a bar, on the other hand you’re going to a restaurant to celebrate your son or daughters graduation and you have to breathe in the smoke from across the room. Smoking in public places subjects people who don’t care to smoke to second hand smoking, which is said to have worse effects then firsthand smoking. The effects of smoking are not a good thing any way you look at it. It causes lung cancer, it causes you to have hard time breathing, and it could even cause you to lose your voice. This is why I believe that smoking should be banned from public places. I think smoking in bars is fine. Let there be a designated public place outside the home to smoke, but keep it contained. Don’t make people who don’t want to breathe in the pollution feel like they can’t get away from it. Smoking needs to be banned from public places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The price of cigarettes is twice as expensive then a gallon of gasoline these days. There are people that smoke more than one pack a day. At an average of $8.00 a pack, people could easily waste half a paycheck a month just on cigarettes...
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...Do you smoke? No, I do not smoke. Are you able to tolerate smoking? Yes, I am tolerable when others are smoking. Have you ever felt that you should cut down on your alcohol consumption? No, I have never have felt that I need to cut down on my alcohol consumption. Have people annoyed you by criticizing your drinking? No, no one has ever criticized my drinking. Have you ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking? No, I have never felt bad about my drinking. Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to calm your nerves or get rid of a hangover? No, I do not drink first thing in the morning to calm my nerves or get rid of a hangover. Do you have any health concerns of which we should be aware of? No, I am healthy....
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...A brown study – day dreaming 2) Alive and kicking - healthy 3) All and sundry - every one 4) All of a sudden - un expectedly 5) Apple of one’s eye – favourite 6) As cool as a cucumber - calm 7) At the top of – loudly 8) At sixes and sevens - confused 9) At draggers dawn - hostile 10) Bad tempered - grumpy 11) Bear in mind - remember 12) Black and white - writing 13) Bolt from the blue - unexpected 14) Bring to light - discover 15) Build castle in the air - day dream 16) Burst at the seams - overcrowded 17) By all means - certainly 18) By the skin of one’s teeth - narrowly 19) Case in point - example 20) Catch sight of - see 21) ...
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...Amanda Rowan EN1420 February 25, 2016 Project pt 2 Do you hate the smell of cigarette smoke and would like to see it banned? In my opinion, I believe that cigarette smoking should be banned. Many people will say that it should and shouldn’t for many different reasons. According to Debate.org, 80% said it should be banned and 20% says that it shouldn’t be banned. Also according to Robert N. Proctor, he wrote “Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case of abolition.” He states that cigarettes are the deadliest artefact in human civilization. Do you think cigarette smoking should be banned? Each year 6 million people die alone from smoking cigarettes. Death and product defect are two reasons to abolish the sales of cigarettes. Each year, more and more wild fires are caused by cigarette butts from people. Smoking cigarettes is the number one cause of lung cancer therefore deaths, lung cancer is almost entirely due to the use of low pH flue-cured tobacco in cigarettes. I believe smoking cigarettes should be banned because everyone wants to live a long healthy life, and since lung cancer is the number one cause of death that means if you are an organ donner, then when you die, nobody will be able to use a lung if need be because it turned out to be a bad lung. The purpose of this article is about hoe cigarettes should be banned and why. Cigarette smoking has corrupted media that’s very popular, newspapers, and also magazines. Instead of learning new things in a newspaper or talking...
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...3-19-12 Why America Should Ban Smoking Tobacco has been around for more than four hundred years and is still very popular as of today. Millions of Americans smoke cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products on a daily basis that is harmful to the body. However, smoking has become one of the biggest controversies in today's society. This personal experience clearly shows that smoking needs to be banned. “Gail Routh worked as a flight attendant for nearly twenty-seven years. Routh was a nonsmoker all her life, but after working in contact with secondhand smoke on airplanes she contracted lung cancer. Gail Routh sued the tobacco industry for lung cancer and bronchitis that was linked to the expose to secondhand smoke (Hudson, 2004).” In 1964, the United States Surgeon General declared that smoking was bad for one's health and was related to lung cancer. Therefore, smoking should be banned in all public places to prevent contracting lung cancer from first or second hand smoke, enable those with lung conditions to be able to hold jobs in places that they would not be able to because of the smoke in the air, and help businesses keep their employees safer while generating more revenue, which in turn would save thousands of lives each year. Tobacco use kills nearly 470,000 Americans each year and is among one of the leading causes of preventable death. Smoking is also legal at the age eighteen in the United States; however, many non-smokers say that it should be restricted in public...
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...Neh-Bih Sangbong Professor Kronstadt English 102 4 April 2015 Ban On Smoking in Public Places Ban On Smoking In Public Places Smoking has been a very controversial topic in recent years. A lot of people smoke everywhere, including in public places. Smoking in public places is frowned upon because of the increasing health risks that come with inhaling the smoke. It is argued that smoking is bad for the health and it can affect a person who inhales and exhales the cigarette, as well as affect other people who are around a smoker in public places. Smoking is so unhealthy, that it can lead to life threatening diseases which can also lead to death. Because of these life threatening risks, smoking should be banned in public places. However, there are some people who believe otherwise, that smoking should not be banned in public places, and that it should be allowed in any public place that does not prohibit smoking. There are many pros and cons on why banning smoking in public places is an issue. Proponents on banning smoking in public places, view the pros on why smoking should be banned, while opponents on banning smoking in public places, view the cons on banning smoking in public places. The most common, accurate, factual and claimed pro for proponents on why smoking should be banned in public places is that, it is scientifically and medically proven that smoking in public places not only affects the person who smokes, but the people around that person will also be affected...
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...Smoking can be dangerous not only for the smoker, but also for those around the smoker. Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventable death (after active smoking and alcohol), according to the Manitoba Medical Association. They also say that the smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, 50 of which are known to be cancer-related. Secondhand smoke has been linked to heart and respiratory disease; lung, breast, cervical, and nasal sinus cancers; strokes and miscarriages. In children, dangers include sudden infant death syndrome, fetal growth impairment, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma and middle-ear disease. People who smoke subject themselves to deadly diseases, as well as long- and short-term health problems. Non-smokers should not have to live with the consequences of smokers' actions. http://www.publishyourarticles.net/knowledge-hub/essay/an-essay-on-should-smoking-be-banned-in-public-places.html Many surveys, studies and scientific research has proved that smoking is injurious to health. Smoke is unhealthy and suffocating. It pollutes the environment. There are two types of smokers - active and passive. The person who smokes is active and other who are near to him and inhale the smoke are passive smokers. Both are equally affected by the ill effects of smoking. Smokers and non-smokers meet at many places like offices, buses, hotels, etc. So, considering the bad effects of smoking on individual's health, environment as well as individual rights, it should be banned...
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...ESL 139 Johnney Chen 12/11/12 Smoking and Casino Can you imagine what casinos will be like if on day there is a ban on smoking in casino? These days more and more people are against the smoking. Also, many places have been starting to prohibit smoking in public or semipublic, like school, mall, airport or restaurant. It is obvious that people pay regard to the question of smoking. People think smoking will affect our health. Admittedly, smoking is not good for couples of reasons, but not in a casino. Smoking in casinos should not be banned by three reasons. First of all, smoking should not be banned because casinos need customers. Undoubtedly, smoking is not good for people, but In fact there are lots of customers smoking. If casinos prohibit smoke, then casino must lost lots of money. In addition, casinos employees who work long time in casino will inhale secondhand smoke all the time. It is not fair to the employees. But in fact employees are here to serve customers with the best, they also get pay more than jobs which out of casinos, so they should sacrifice themself to inhale secondhand smoke. Second, smoking should not be banned because people who come to casinos for gambling need to be enjoyed and relaxed. Certainly, some people don’t feel good with the smell of smoking, or even they think inhaling the smoke is unhealthy. However, many customers flew a long way to Vegas for vocation; they wish they can have fun, be free and unrestrained. If casinos do not allow...
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...Should smoking be allowed or banned in public places? Should smoking be allowed or banned in public? Smoking tobacco has been affecting what’s around us because more people start to smoke so that’s more pollution in the air. Some people feel that they constantly need to smoke in order to get through their day and not realizing what they’re doing to themselves and others. Smoking shouldn’t be allowed in public places like parks because of all the little kids running around. People shouldn’t smoke were there’s huge crowds like time square in New York City. Smoking while standing outside a restaurant is giving that place a bad name. Smoking in restaurants was aloud a couple of years ago but stopped. Smokers should stop smoking and look at the bigger picture and help not only save your life but save life’s around you who are inhaling just as much smoke as you are. On March 20, 2014 smoking parks and beaches has been 100% banned. On this date a bill was passed that there would be no more smoking on beaches or parks. If you are caught smoking in these areas you will face a $250.00- $1,000 fine. People who are caught breaking this law will start with a $250 fine then go to $500 then to $1,000 and more. This bill was passed on a vote of 78 people 4 were absence. The vote came to 67-7 that we should pass this law and move on to a healthy world. Lots of people were very upset about the bill that was passed. People liked to go on vacation to the beach lay down relax and either smoke...
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...Cigarette smoking is injurious to health is the notification given in all cigarette packets. But this is not stopped by people who are smoking cigarette as it is not good for health. I personally hate people who are smoking in public places. These people who are smoking in the public places not only cause health problems to them but also to other peoples in these places. Therefore smoking individually inside their homes must not be banned as it is considered as one of the rights of people. But some people will say that smoking must be banned overall and must stop using cigarettes. This is not all possible and it should not be done. Therefore people who are smoking in their homes will be affected by this decision. This must not be done as it will ban the rights of people. This will also lead to the revenue loss of the government. But this cigarette smoking not only affects the individual health but also affects the public when it is done in public places. This must be brought down to act which can help people who are not smoking. The people who are smoking in the public places must be punished literally. This kind of smoking in public places will cause lung disease to both the persons who are smoking and other people who are not smoking in the public. Therefore this kind of smoking in the public must be banned. Smoking in public places will affect the health of each and every person in that area as they are exposed to smoke. The smoke which arises from cigarettes will affect the...
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