Banned Against Smoking

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Banned Against Smoking Smoking has always been a bad habit for most people, some more than others. Regardless of awareness that smoking damages their health, smokers could not easily give up on smoking due to physical and mental addiction, stress, and peer pressure. Dozens of localities and a number of states have enacted sweeping smoking bans. To many people tobacco smoke is considered as air pollution. Smoking outdoors is just as bad as smoking indoors. Either way smoking has smoking has effected something or someone somewhere, whether the environment or a baby in the arms of a chain smoking mom. Smoking should be banned in all public places. Not everyone agrees businesses want to remove their smoking bans. After all they argue smoking can only harm the person who is smoking and all smokers have the right to smoke, whether at home or in public. Some conceder having smoking sections for smoker is always an option; just have them in different rooms in different parts of the establishment. If we banned smoking because it pollutes the air, then cars should be banned too because they pollute the air to. Either way, people are going to smoke, because it is a choice would be unconstitutional. If nonsmokers do not want smokers to be in the same public place as them, they should just go to Parker2 an establishment that supports policies against smoking. “So smoking bans do not prohibit smoking just reduce the use of it” (Lambert). Tobacco smoking has become a part of most people’s lives. Regardless of awareness that smoking damages health, it is not easy to give up on smoking due to physical and mental addiction, stress, and peer pressure (“Naeher”). Dozens of localities and a number of states have enacted sweeping smoking bans
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