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Pros And Cons Of Banning Smoking In Public Places

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As Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (n.d.) says “People who die each year from their own cigarette smoking or exposure to second hand smoke are more than 480,000 in the U.S only”(p.1). Many people debate on should or should not smoking in public places be banned. Everyone knows that smoking harms our health and destroys every organ in our body. It also affects our environment negatively. Many people do not know that tobacco was found in America before thousands of years ago. At first people started chewing tobacco and they only smoke it during specific events as been said by the “A brief history of smoking” (2011, p.1). It was considered as a type of accessories for a man to hold a tobacco in his hand. Some people see it as a sign of being mature and old enough so that people would take him seriously and not to mess with him. It became a habit and a trend among people with different ages to smoke cigarettes with variety of flavors and nicotine. However, nowadays scientists and doctors did many studies, that smoking destroys our health and harms non-smokers as well. Smoking also may cause death at young age. Therefore, it is argued that smoking …show more content…

Smokers should think seriously to stop smoking since it is considered as suicide. It increases the chances of having cancer in every organ in the human’s body which leads to death. As long as it destroys the human’s health it also effects our environment negatively by increasing air pollution. Moreover, Smokers should realize that they are role models for the younger generation which include their brothers and sisters and even their children. Therefore, smokers should not be selfish and think about themselves only; they should look around them and see that there is at least one person who cares about them. Since smokers are still alive; it is never too late to stop smoking and start a healthy

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