Nationwide Smoking Ban: Smoking Should be Banned in All Public Places

Smoking is an activity that has been around for many years for people to use and adapt into their lifestyle. It is a tool that many people use to help reduce the stresses of life and put them in a comfortable position that enables them to cope with the hectic lifestyle they are living. However, smoking has been scientifically proven to cause many types of cancer, the most common being lung cancer resulting in numerous deaths across the United States. According to BBC, "Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease" (BBC, 2). Evidently, the benefits and drawbacks of smoking have been debated for many years, and only recently have some countries have placed a ban in public places such as Britain and the United

I whole heartedly feel the government should intervene and ban public smoking, with no exceptions. Now when we talk about the government doing something like banning all smoking in public; the questioned in posed “is the government over stepping it boundaries?” the answer to that is; I don’t think so. True enough people have a right to smoke, and I’m not saying

In Minnesota there was a state wide smoking ban that took effect on September 30, 2007. “The Minnesota law applies to bars, restaurants, and private clubs.” (Brunswick, 2007) This change in the law has affected some of the business in many bars. Recently there have been a few bars that have found a “loophole” in the Freedom to Breathe Act. The loophole basically states that smoking is

Smoking should not be permitted in public areas, since it’s not reasonable to force a non-smoker into inhaling unwanted toxic smokes into his own body. Just like one has the option of being a smoker, they other may have the right to pick the option of not wanting to be a passive smoker.

Many people in America have some kind of respiratory illness such as asthma. These asthmatics wheeze at the sheer idea of someone smoking. Swearing that they have developed a sixth sense, they can detect smoke from a mile away, immediately knowing which direction to avoid. Secondhand smoke affects everyone, especially the people who want nothing to do with it. Countless mere bystanders die each year from secondhand smoke not being able to do anything to prevent it other that becoming a hermit or wearing a hazard suit at all times. Not to mention what it does to the health of the smoker, lung cancer, caused by smoking, has been a leading cause of death in America for years. A multitude of different diseases go along with smoking and using tobacco other products including gum disease, yellowing of finger and toenails, rotting teeth, and heart disease. Is this the world favorable to live in? Horrifyingly enough, the world exhibits this now. Putting a ban on smoking will protect the common

First of all, the government makes a lot of money off of cigarette tax revenues. In 2015, the government made 13.4 billion on tax revenues and 13.3 billion on cigarette pack sales. All of the states on average make 16.2 billion dollars on cigarette tax revenue and 12.9 billion dollars on cigarette pack sales in 2015. North Dakota makes 24.7 million dollars in tax revenues, and 56.1 million on cigarette pack sales (Boonm 3). Also some states rely on tax revenues to balance budgets. In 2009, more than 20 states were considering tax hikes to fill budget holes. Banning cigarettes would also encourage illegal cross boarder, black market and internet purchases. The Mackinac Center reports that “tax- induced smuggling has becomes so widespread that it undermines both revenue and health goals of higher cigarette taxes, while producing unintended consequences for individual states and society as a whole” (Nothdurft). Banning cigarettes would also make a lot of people unemployed. As of 2013, 13,570 people are employed by the tobacco industry. That’s a lot of jobs to lose (10 Reasons Tobacco Should Be Banned Or Not

In the article “Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition” by Robert Procter states that “Another objection commonly raised to any call for a ban is that this will encourage smuggling, or even organized crime.” I can agree with this statement although this author is for banning this statement brings out a huge issue that could potentially arise from banning tobacco. If there is a will there will be a way. Another outrageous idea I read in the article called “Regulatory Approaches to Ending Cigarette-Caused Death and Diseases in the United States” by Richard Daynard was the fact that the government would give tobacco companies a limit to how many cigarettes that can produce each year. By doing this it stated by the end of 2015 “it would become unlawful for a cigarette manufacturer to produce more than two-thirds of the brands baseline.”. So not only would the indoor-outdoor smoking bans be in effect the government would now be regulating the amount of cigarettes produced in the United States. Therefore I feel as strongly as others about banning smoking rights. I am a non-smoker myself and as long as you aren’t purposefully blowing smoke in my face, feel free to do as you please. While you can, that is.

The Senate recently joined the House of Representatives in backing the statewide ban. The two branches of legislature will meet in January to revise a draft of the bill for the statewide ban, which will most likely pass in early 2004 and take effect July 5, 2004, making Massachusetts the 6th state to ban smoking statewide. California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, and New York have already passed similar bans.

few states have implemented laws that make it illegal to smoke in the car when there is a child within the car. Should this become a federal law where it is enforced in all states? What about making it illegal for a pregnant mother to smoke? Or parents smoking in a house with children, should this be illegal too? How far should lawmakers go with the creation of anti-smoking laws for the protection of the unborn, infants and children to an individual's personal freedom?

Substantial progress has been made in protecting individuals from the effects of tobacco. However, many more efforts are needed at the local, state, and federal level in enforcing policies to reduce exposure.

Have you ever been in a situation where you try to walk in a building, but there are people smoking at the entrance, and you does not want to breathe in those toxic airs. Therefore, you try to hold your breath and walk pass them to get inside the building. Reason why I mention this, it is because Smoking is one of the major cause of preventable deaths, smoking also causes many illnesses for people. According to the Center Of Disease Control and Prevention reported that 46 million people in the American who are age of 18 and older smoke cigarettes, and there are more than 480,000 smoking related deaths per year in the United States. Smoking is does not just put the smokers at risk, but also people around them. According to the Center Of Disease Control and Prevention since 1964, approximately around 2.500.000 non- smokers died because of exposure to second hand smoke I think that smoking should be banned completely in home, worksite, and public place around the world to reduce the cause of deaths and pollution.

Despite decades of the consumer warnings of unpleasant and early deaths, cigarettes have not been banned and made illegal. The cigarette industry has had numerous claims filed against it over health issues, the prices of the products,the ingredients used, and where the cigarettes are produced. The hundreds of lives that could be saved every year from the cigarette ban, not to mention money and revenue that could be generated in the US by this is more than enough reasons to get on board. Many people want the freedom to make their own choices, but if the choice you make is only a negative choice that will affect you and everyone around you, something like cigarette sales, should be banned in America.

Cigarette smoking has become quite common in today’s world with an estimated nearly 42.1 million Americans smoking on a daily basis (Center for Disease Control, 2014). Smoking can be detrimental to a person’s health, as well as doing damage to the environment. Smoking is in no one’s best interest, and for that reason, smoking should be banned in the United States.

In 1997 about 20% of non-smokers were likely to end up with lung cancer. According to USA today, “the number of people that were hospitalized for strokes fell from 16% while the hospitalization for respiratory disease fell 24%” they believe that the more demanding the law the more impact it will have (Szabo, 2012). Being around a smoker can endanger an innocent bystander’s health. Even kids are at risk when it comes to developing asthma. Statistics have proven that a non-smoker is susceptible to second hand smoke that can lead to lung cancer as well. This means, there is the possibility of non-smokers being affected even if it means being in contact for less than thirty minutes. It affects the blood flow as well as the blood vessels and of course the heart. Although we cannot immediately keep smokers off the street (not that I want to), we can still work to have the act banned from public places to insure the health of others as well as smokers. Banning smoking on hospital grounds should definitely happen. Hospitals are supposed to be a healthy ground, not a toxic place where one may go and get sick just by standing outside around a smoker. The hospital is a place for curing so anything that can harm a patient should not be allowed in or around the facility. Smoking should be done on the smoker’s time when they are alone. According to

Even though there are thousands of smokers in the U.S., we need to consider how much it will help to ban public smoking in more places. Since 2000 over half of the states