Should Tobacco Be Banned in Public Places?

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"We have to limit smoking, we have to limit where people smoke, we have to protect people from themselves, we have to protect their children," says Ronald Bayer, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Some people are so care free about smoking in public and smoking around others. For example, my cousin didn’t care where he smoked his cigarettes. He smoked in the house, in the living room, in his room, even in the bathroom. Several of my family members complained because they were aware of the health problems he could cause. No matter how much we would all complain, he still didn’t care. He thought it was “cool” to smoke around everyone including the children. But one day he finally realized that he could no longer smoke around anyone in the house because he noticed family members constantly coughing. He quit smoking around my family but he didn’t quit smoking in public (still not realizing that he is harming the public just as well as he was harming my family). One day my grandmother and aunt went to the doctor to figure out why they were having a constant cough. The doctor told my grandmother that she had asthma and my aunt had asthma and bronchitis. The doctor asked them did either of them smoke but, of course not. The doctor told them that they could have received bronchitis and asthma by second hand smoke. Immediately they were enraged because my cousin was the cause of it. This is exactly why smoking should be banned publicly because anyone can be diagnosed with any sickness due to second hand smoke. Smoking is dangerous to people around the smoker, smoking is dangerous to the environment, and smoking is also dangerous and leaves a bad impression amongst children. “Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use. Cigarettes, pipes, cigars and hookahs are all popular forms of smoking tools. During the 1920s

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