Arguments Against Nonsmokers Rights

I love nothing more than to stroll around the beautiful campus at State University. The scenery is breathtaking, especially with the promise of autumn about the air. During this particular time of the year, I find great enjoyment in taking a deep breath and inhaling the fragrant aroma of the surrounding nature. However, my enjoyment prematurely ends when the sudden smell of cigarette smoke engulfs me. Sound familiar? If you are a non-smoking student, this scene reflects everyday life on a smoking campus. Something must be done about this infringement upon non-smoker's rights. Is our health so meaningless as to be put at the mercy of carcinogens and toxins? I think not. Though State University provides non-smoking environments within

At the beginning I thought that is a great proposal which can help to reduce tobacco use and damage associated with smoking, and promotes healthy life style. Then I raise the question why authority bans smoking in public housing, but not in private apartment? Every attempt at prohibition and social control make the poor to suffer more and more. Banning smoking in public housing can limit poor’s life choices personal space and privacy. People living in the public houses have a right to enjoy their free time at their home. Also, elderly and disable public housing tenants who are addicted to smoking will have a difficult time of getting outside to smoke. Additionally for the most people smoking help to reduce stress and give some time out from

This problem, which plagues all Americans, should have action taken on a local scale to help protect the health of the public. The Ames City Council is in the process of debating a city ordanince which whould ban smoking in all public places, with the exception of those designated as "smokng areas". A public place shall be defined by Subsection

“We affirm that environmental tobacco smoke is a significant public health risk to young children and that parents need to know about the risks of smoking in the home around their young children. We agree to co-operate on education and public awareness efforts aimed at reducing children’s exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.”

Immemorial, governments and individual citizens have had to walk a thin tightrope between the two ideals. This controversy was the catalyst that sparked the first ten amendments of the Constitution that we know as the Bill of Rights and, how in addition to these rights secured by America's forefathers, a number of institutions have arisen to ensure the protection of individual rights in an increasingly complex world. In order to add balance to this equation, the criminal

The vulnerable population that I observed during my survey are the teenagers and young adult smokers. As I was driving along Flatbush avenue and the surrounding community one evening, I observed a bunch of young male adults gathered on the street, appeared to be clean and nicely dressed. They were talking loud, drinking alcohol and smoking weed or cigarettes. You would have thought that they were fighting with each other, but much do I know that this was their normal way of communicating at social gatherings. What baffled me the most was that there were children and females, both young and older adults as well standing in the same spot inhaling the cigarette smoke. It seems like people are ignorant that second hand cigarette smoking is more hazardous to non-smokers than it is to smokers, especially to children. It could cause lung cancer, heart problems and other debilitating diseases.

The next reason why Bowling Green State University should ban smoking on campus is that it will create a better campus environment. Having a great campus environment for all students should be at the top of the university’s list of goals. By passing this smoking ban, it allows non-smoking students to walk around campus in peace knowing smoke won’t be entering their bodies. Now this is where smokers have the biggest argument. The university must still remember the smokers; this they do by giving the smokers the ability to smoke in designated areas. Of course this will still take away some of the smokers’ rights, but it is a fair trade if it possibly keeps major life changing diseases out of young college students’ bodies. Also doing this helps

She claims that even though conflicts are arising because of the bans, smokers will become more understanding of the bans in the future. She uses Mayor Bloomberg of New York City as an example. She states that “Mayor Michael Bloomberg drew much fire in New York City by outlawing smoking in restaurants and bars. Now in a city of easier breathing and increased longevity, his efforts are seen as a solid legacy.” As long as individual liberties continue to be limited, smokers will never completely come to terms with banning smoking in their own home. In restaurants around the nation, smoking is commonly allowed, but only within a designated smoking zone, which is usually in a room separate from those who are non-smokers. Completely outlawing smoking in restaurants in New York City was a very poor political decision because it put a severe strain on individual liberties, for many New Yorkers are known for smoking cigarettes, but now can’t even enjoy a meal and smoke in designated areas. Banning this kind of smoking did not make for “easier breathing” and “increased longevity” for New Yorkers. In a big, populated city like New York City, litter poses a bigger threat to individual health. According to the New York City government website, there is even a main phone line to call about chronic littering

Every day in America families’ gathers together to celebrate special events or the accomplishments of one of its members. Many times these special moments can be ruined or brought to an abrupt end due to others nearby smoking. Public spaces should be safe and accessible to all members of society to use without the inconvenience of someone else’s smoking ruining their outing or causing health issues to flare up such as, asthma. People do have the right to choose to smoke if they desire, but nonsmokers have the right to go out to public places with their family and not be exposed to harmful secondhand smoke. Studies have shown that secondhand smoke is just as harmful as smoking and leads to a higher occurrence of cancer and heart disease. Furthermore,

Secondhand smoke exposure poses serious health threats to children and adults. For residents of multi-unit housing (e.g., apartment buildings and condominiums), secondhand smoke can be a major concern. Smoke can migrate from other units and common areas and travel through doorways, cracks in walls, electrical lines, plumbing, and ventilation systems. Considering all the dangers of smoking, most especially to the vulnerable citizens like seniors citizens and infants. What is We Choose Health? In 2013, the Illinois Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) launched a statewide initiative, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) known as We Chose Health, a community transformation grant (CTG). We choose health initiated eight

It takes two puffs from an inhaler, every day at six in the morning for my sister to bring equilibrium to her life and asthma in order to live through a normal day. If she doesn’t incorporate this into her daily routine, she is essentially to be bedridden until she does so, no exception. The inhaler that she carries in her purse has become as essential to her life as her desire to breathe freely. The symptoms worsen as her airways are exposed to any kid of second hand smoke, cold air, or pollen. All though manufacturing smoking cigarettes and alcohol, and guns is not illegal since their bona fide use is ultimately not centered around harm. Irving Coffman, a dilettante in the social effects of the manufacturing of legal but harmful products, introduces his sentiment on manufacturers responsibility to the general harm caused by their products by sharing the ongoing action by some cigarette manufacturers to recompense society for the effects being perpetuated by their products. Coffman correlates the actions between the tobacco companies to the responsibility of all other companies of all legal but harmful products to do the same.

and The question is why the freedom to smoke in a designated area in public places a problem. If you are outside are in close area people are still exposed to the fumes of second hand smoke. Can the option of smoking be left up to the public rather or not an individual should smoke in public. Where does the line end in the rights of a person the right to inhale clean air, the right to excise your right to smoke in public? Non-Smokers have the right to smoke free clean air environment, and smokers have a personal right to smoke in designated smoking areas. In this research paper I will talk about the controversy issue of second-hand smoke in public places and the privilege to smoke in public.

Regardless of the fact that there is not a dynamic multipronged approach, the endorsement and usage of a smoking boycott at the neighborhood or state level for the most part includes much open verbal confrontation, which itself builds open attention to the wellbeing impacts of smoking and used smoke (Johns et al 260). Thusly, smoking practices frequently change before and past the limitations set up by enactment (for instance, stopping or willful without smoke working environment approaches in expectation of a boycott, lessening in smoking in homes), and such changes would add to the greatness of changes in wellbeing results seen after the execution of a smoking boycott.

We are trying to garner support for changing smoking-locations on campus. Issue seeking to fix: Public smoking on Drexel campus is excessive and potentially dangerous. Not only that, but the littering of cigarette butts has become problematic. We want to determine a way to make the campus cleaner and safer. We are targeting Drexel Students, Staff, and Administration. The students are our peers and are also the largest population affected by public smoking. Many members of the staff do not have the freedom that students have to just avoid the areas with excessive public smoking and should not have to pick up the litter of other students. Meanwhile, the administration is the population most

Dear Congressman MacArthur, a message to thank you for your support in the matter of smoking in Highland Plaza Apartments. The present owners have via conference call assured me of their direct plan to implement a previously delayed 100% smoke-free policy at the property. With this and by your input, which made a difference, I will hopefully rest my case. However, as a society and civilization, we continue to face critical issues for which time and tide will not wait. I will, therefore, continue in some relative manner to represent awareness of human values and the protection of life on this planet. Also, with respect for those as yourself who honor their intentions. Sincerely, Frank Culotta July 14,