Banning Smoking in Public Places

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A serial silent killer in our societies has been destroying lives and families for so many years. It is a killer that has taken one person’s life each and every three seconds, which is more than homicide and car accidents rates combined. Smoking has done this ruthless job for far too long, and this is why I believe smoking should be banned wherever a non-smoker exists, as a way to regulate smoking itself. Firstly, a person has the right to do whatever makes him/her happy, but a smoker’s right to smoke ends where a non-smoker’s right begins. Smoking leads to more than 12 types of cancer, and that is indeed harmful. In fact, studies showed that most of the smoking victims, died due to passive smoking. In the past decade, laws that ban smoking have been increasing, and therefore studies have shown that the amount of Cotinine- which is a chemical released in the body when nicotine from tobacco smoke is inhaled- in a human body has dramatically decreased. This shows that effectiveness of these laws. Secondly, smoking is a bad influence for kids and specially adolescents. This affects good-parenting, because when a child sees someone smoking in public then he/ she will want to try smoking, and this will create endless generation of smokers. Studies done in California University showed that children who have parents that smokes in front of them, grow up to also be smokers. The number of educational campaigns that raises awareness against smoking has been increasing, but I strongly believe that it is not enough to tell people that smoking is bad for them; instead, we should make it difficult for them to do it. In my personal opinion, I believe that smoking should be banned completely due to it severe harms that affects both smokers and non-smokers. However, banning it in several places is a good way to make it difficult for smokers to smoke, and therefore

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