How To Write A Modest Proposal

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“A Modest Proposal” For Preventing Smokers from Contaminating the Air with Deadly Toxins and Causing Second Hand Smoke upon the Innocent Public Contaminated air is among the many fears that the innocent public must confront in order to attempt a healthy and long living life. Naive children occasionally saunter down the street unknowingly passing by men and women smoking the typical cigarette. Tobacco does not only affect the consumer, but it also partakes in the lives of the surrounding inhabitants that inhale the same toxins. Smokers have a gruesome and egotistic view on life that results in no consideration for the purity of a person’s body. The negligence that tobacco consumers demonstrate by smoking wherever and whenever results in 443,000 deaths per year, including 49,000 of whom had never smoked, but second hand smoke took advantage over them. There is a solution for everything; therefore there must be a reasonable proposal that would solve the issue of tobacco consumers. In order to…show more content…
Firstly, there would be no longer any constant worry of second hand smoke, which would reduce the probability of innocent deaths. Secondly, businesses’ that involve any social interaction would no longer have people smoking during breaks and returning reeking of smoke and disgusting their customers. Thirdly, no single person would start smoking because they would not want to be sent to the island. Fourthly, the government would make a higher profit based on the distribution of cigarettes that they would sell to the island by setting extremely high taxes on them. Fifthly, the air and the environment would be much cleaner and society would have one less thing to worry about. Sixthly, society would be more peaceful, since most smokers are stressed and aggressive individuals. Although there are oppositions with counter arguments, nothing would triumph the ideal island for
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