Should smoking bans be a law in every public place worldwide? Would you like to go out to eat with a friend and have the person right at another table smoke near you? I think not, I wouldn’t like it at all. They’re not only harming themselves, but everyone nearby. How much knowledge does this person have on the smoke they are inhaling? Everyone is at risk, adults, children, and even pets. Second-hand smoke can be prevented. Why allow this to happen in our world, if you want to smoke do it on your own time away from others who do not wish to inhale your smoke.
Smoking bans are laws and or policies that prevent people from smoking in workplaces, restaurants, coffee shops, and other kinds of public place. Legislation may also define smoking bans as more generally being the carrying or possessing of any lit tobacco product. In 1575 the first smoking ban took place in Roman Catholic Church in Mexico forbidding people from smoking tobacco products while they’re attending church. Some countries have put a complete ban on tobacco. For example, Bhutan, forbids people to grow, harvest, produce, and sell tobacco as well as tobacco products. Smoking bans have a high pro on our community. They help protect the health of people, smoking bans ensure that smoking in public place will prevent non-smokers to come in contact with second-hand smoke. They help lower healthcare cost, they reduce chances of becoming ill or ending up in the hospital. It helps people save money because of how
Smoking is the inhalation and exhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco. Historically, it was thought that smoking was harmless, but more modern, clinical and laboratory research proves that it is, in fact, extremely dangerous. Tobacco cigarettes should be illegal in the United States due to their plethora of negative effects on the population and the environment. If cigarettes were banned, the country would be a much better place. Pollution, diseases and fatalities would dramatically decrease, while productivity, financial stability and overall health would increase.
Smoke does affect not only the smoker but also the individuals who are inhaling the smoke. Many people have understood what it causes or seen the effects of smoking, and yet they still do it. While many places still allow smoking areas, they should be banned because it still dangers the health of individuals who are non-smokers by hurting their lungs and most importantly their
The laws are a Social Contract. In http://www.dictionary.com/browse/social-contract we can find that social Contract is a voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members. In Brazil, we also have a law that has banned smoking in all indoor common spaces, public or private, such as restaurants, clubs, residential building halls and clubs. I agree with this law, although the smokers, 15% of the population, claim that they have the right to smoke, the law protects the no smokers not only against the unpleasant smoke and smell of cigarettes, and also take care of the public health. Certainly smoking causes illness, and people who do not have the addiction of smoking are also victims of such diseases when involuntarily inhale the cigarette smoke.
In certain places, the government regulations against smoking could be very beneficial. For example, in hospitals or any healthcare
Smoking should be banned in Australia. Smoking is a disgusting habit that many Australians use every single day. The impact of banning smoking altogether in Australia would be a massive favour for everyone. Australian adults who smoke everyday and Australian Secondary Students from the age 12 to 17 smoke over 22 billion cigarettes per year and effecting other people to start smoking because they think it’s a cool way to get attention. But I think that banning it in almost all public places is a great idea but I raise this question to you, “Why not just Ban Smoking?” This question was raised in a ‘The Age’ article in 2013. The main point of the article is, smoking is banned in pretty much all public places and there are often neighbours writing to the council complaining about a smoking neighbour, so why not just ban it altogether?
In the summer of 2008, the Smokefree Air Act went into effect in Iowa. Smoking has been banned in public workplaces and transits. Users are fined $50 to $500 if they violate the act. Expanding the fine for smoking could also be another tool to put an end to smoking. Most smokers would rather not pay a large fee and may quit smoking altogether ("14 Central Pros and Cons of Smoking Bans”). At least eighty-two percent of the US population lives in a US state that has enacted a smoking ban. “Almost all states have passed some form of legislation to ban smoking in public areas. In fact, Medline Plus reports that as of May 2010, 39 states had some type of ban in place. According to Medline Plus, 26 of these states have banned smoking in all public places” (Cherney). In 2009, an act was issued to the FDA to stop advertising youth to purchase tobacco products and advertising it to the public. This act was called the, Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This act issued to limit the persuasion of smoking in advertisements, sponsoring it in any sort of entertainment or event, and even sampling it (“Laws/Policies”). Banning smoking could also lessen air pollution, decrease fires, lower energy consumption, etcetera. Smoking causes multiple health problems but could easily be avoided by prohibiting
If you’ve watched television it’s likely you know about the no cigarette law campaign, over the years there has been less smokers and nevertheless a campaign came along trying to make an anti-cigarette law. As a critical thinker, i decided there should NOT be a anti-cigarette law but, I do agree with the message to rid of smoking.
One major issue of the Smoking In Public Ban is how will the economy react. Some people avoid businesses that allow people to smoke there because they don’t want to endanger themselves, their family, or both. Another pro for the ban in sense of the economy would be the odor of the cigarettes would be gone (Rutherford np).The ban will make businesses more family friendly which will add more money to the economy and cause more jobs be added to the workforce, internal improvements, and many other things that will strengthen our nation. The cons of the smoking in public in terms of the economy would be that it would encourage smokers to smoke less, which is good for the smokers but not so much for the economy because the tobacco industry would
The pros are in favor more than the cons because one there are more and two because they all have a specific purpose such as reducing pollution which can lead to lessening global warming, by reducing health cost because less people need attention for their lungs and other problems related to smoking causes. (14 central pros and cons of smoking bans).
Health is one of the main reasons for a ban on smoking. Exposure to tobacco smoke greatly increases ones risk of lung cancer and heart disease. Smoking not only effects the smoker but also all those who are around them. While at work one cannot help but
The law steps in to prevent citizens causing harm to others, whether deliberately or accidentally. However, it should not stop them taking risks themselves - for example, dangerous sports such as rock-climbing, parachuting or motor-racing are legal. It is also legal to indulge in other health-threatening activities such as eating lots of fatty foods, taking no exercise, and drinking too much alcohol. Banning smoking would be an unmerited intrusion into personal freedom. 2) Cigarettes are very different from dangerous cars or poisonous foods.
Thirdly, smoking in public places should be illegal in the whole of the UK. At the moment it is banned in Scotland, as many people suffer from passive smoking. It is still not yet banned in England but will be soon, however, many people are still suffering due to this. 12% of house fires are caused by smoking. If someone is smoking in bed and they fall asleep, if they drop their cigarette they could set their bed, their room, their house on fire and when they woke up they would be stuck. Smoking kills, in more ways than one. It is really annoying and makes you feel ill when someone comes in smelling of smoke.
Smoking is an activity in the society that has become a serious topic as it causes health problems to both smokers and passive smokers due to the inhalation of tobacco. Consequently, the most visible alternative for the legislators and other institutions in various countries is the banning of smoking in public. Smoking is not only a social habit that does harm non-smokers but it also takes away their freedom from being forced to inhale the contents of the cigarettes. Nowadays, many developed countries around the world enacted laws and established rules against smoking in public areas as a consequence of effecting "second smokers" especially children and babies. Banning should be considered the possible solution to this problem.
Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations that prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and other public spaces. It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking. However, although it is considered that smoking can be harmful, the effects of banning of smoking should be visualised from both positive and negative dimensions. One of the many parties who will be affected by smoking ban is the country itself, no matter affected in a good or bad way.
Scientists agree that smoking is dangerous. Tobacco smoke can cause cancer, strokes and heart disease. Smoking does not just harm the smoker – it also harms people nearby, who breathe in the smoke (this is called “passive smoking”). Smokers choose to smoke, but people nearby do not choose to smoke passively. People should only be exposed to harm if they understand the risks and choose to accept them. A complete ban on smoking in public is needed to protect people from passive smoking.