Should Cigarette Smoking Be Banned?

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

Every year, there are over 400,000 smoking-related deaths in the United States. A large percentage of these are due to lung cancer, whose leading cause is smoking. However, not all deaths are smokers themselves. Anyone in the vicinity can fall victim to second hand smoke. These people, through no action of their own, can have their lives threatened.

Tobacco has been around in the world for over 2.5 million years. It was not until a few hundred years ago when the tobacco industry decided to put these crops into use and conjure up tobacco products for the community. A popular tobacco product in society is cigarettes, as they are cheap and simple to use. As long as one is over eighteen, acquiring cigarettes is a straightforward process for a reasonable price, albeit the sin tax. It was not until recently when cigarettes became widely controversial due to the plant containing nicotine, an addictive drug to the body. Aside from containing nicotine and other hazardous chemicals to the body, cigarettes also cause a whole host of health implications

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,

Smoking should be prohibited in the United states because its one of the largest causes of

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

Every year the US government passes numerous laws to protect its citizens. Yet, they still fail to protect its citizens from the leading cause of death in America. Although they work to protect the citizens they continue to ignore the most preventable death in America. The culprit responsible for these deaths is the cigarette. The impact that cigarettes make on a human is awful and there should be no reason why it is legal. Cigarettes should be banned because it is one of the harm fullest drugs around that is still legal. Cigarettes not only affect ones health but it affects the environment, economy and others around them.

The advocates of the smoking bans point at the societal and individual damage caused by smoking. The justification in their eyes for such ban is that smoking harms individuals’ health and passive inhaling the smoke causes serious health issues. They also emphasize a vital role of a government to protect its citizens’ health and well-being. Apart from that, the supporters mention large public and private spending from tax-payers money related to health issues caused by secondhand smoke. Despite of possible benefits, the regulation remains controversial in the US with only 8 states having such bans. The opponents of smoking bans in private cars with minors refuse the governmental control over behavior in a private property. They are against the violation of property rights and also against control of autonomy. According to the opponents, citizens should be responsible for their own health and should have freedom to make their own heath decision for themselves and their children. They refuse the paternalistic role of the state, however do not fully deny the paternalistic roles

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.

Tobacco is a very negative substance. It has caused many deaths in the past 100 years in the United States. The CDC says that they’re 480,000 deaths in the United States each year (Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking). There are many forms of tobacco such as cigarettes, menthols, e-cigarettes, hookahs and shishas, dissolvables, bidis, and cigars. The government should ban tobacco products in the United States because it has negative effects to an individual's health, they’re also very expensive, and cause harmful pollution to the Earth and its inhabitants.

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

The primary goal of indoor smoke free policies are to protect the health of the public. It provides protection for individuals who are non-smokers and aims to improve the health of those who are smokers. They are used as a tobacco control interventions (tobacco control, 2012). Tobacco control interventions include, motivating smokers to quit smoking, removing triggers to smoke and lowering smoking urges. There are several ways to get smoke free air policies implemented but they must first receive approval from a governmental

Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco, then inhaling the smoke produced. Over the years, harmful chemicals have constantly been added to tobacco cigarettes, to increase the addictiveness of the products in order for companies to earn more money off consumers. The act has many reasons to be banned in Australia, with issues regarding health being the strongest and most significant cause. However, there are also reasons for tobacco smoking to be kept legal in Australia with arguments such as stress relieving and recreational purposes. A solution is yet to be made for the big concern, as both sides of the topic have equally notable arguments. So, should smoking really be banned in

According the Virginia Department of Health, one in every five deaths may be attributed to smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke (Smoking -Attributable Deaths in Virginia). The risk of inferior health caused by smoking in public establishments is truly intolerable. The banning of smoking in public places would benefit everybody and should be imposed everywhere because it would reduce the risk of health problems to non-smokers, reduce the number of smokers all together, and reduce the amount of valuable money tax payers spend on smoking related expenses.

In today's world, many people are addicted to cigarettes. According to the data, there are about 1.1 billion smokers worldwide, and 70 percent of them are in developing countries. About 47 percent of men and 12 percent of women worldwide smoke. In this environment, there are so many people who have to do with lung diseases, especially lung cancer, which is already the highest rate of cancer in many countries where people smoke so heavily, such as China. So, there are so many people are wondering whether forbid smoking is a good way to protect the health of the community. According to what I have collected all the data view, smoking bans have advantages and disadvantages.