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Should Smoking Be Banned?

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Over the past few years, the numbers of smokers around the world are constantly increasing without a break. Even though people are well equipped with the knowledge of how unhealthy smoking can be and what can it causes to their hearts and lungs, they still choose to smoke. Nowadays smoking becomes a trend like a social media, and especially teenagers, are participating in this as well. Although smoking makes you a person feel relaxed from the stress, it harms the body of the smokers in the long run. We have known that smoking can kill us from past 50-60 years, and according to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are an estimated 1.3 billion smokers worldwide. This number is expected to increase to 1.7 billion by 2020. Have you ever smelled that foul scent? If you have it must be annoying, and the surprising fact is it kills you very slowly inside. Every time you smell that dirty scent, you are inhaling thousands of chemicals. Some may argue that banning smoking will create a violent and may damage the economy. However, I agree on banning smoking for plentiful reasons. The effects of smoking are extremely dangerous which can lead a smoker to death and it is not only affecting the smokers; but also endanger the life of the non-smokers by the unwanted second hand smoke, and there is no good reason to be it legal. Therefore, smoking should be banned completely. Why do we not allow people to commit suicide, when we are allowing smokers to kill themselves? Suicide is

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