Smoking In Public

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Smoking in Public Places Smoking is very bad for people especially when smoking in public places like restaurants and bars. People shouldn’t smoke in public because of the people around them like children and older people due to the health problems it causes, and the odor of the cigarette that remain in your clothes and hair. That’s why smoking should be banned in public places. One of the reasons why people shouldn’t smoke in public places is because of the smell of the cigarettes. Cigarettes smell very bad, the smell gets in your hair and clothes and the smell stays there for a long period of time it is very irritating. If you wanted to just go out to a restaurant or a bar to enjoy yourself or to relax and someone was smoking and the person was sitting right next to you couldn’t because of the smell. I think it is bad for businesses to let people smoke in public places because most people wouldn’t want to be around cigarette smoke, because of the smell and the harmful chemicals of second hand smoke. While smoking in public places is very uncomfortable to others, mainly because of the second hand smoke that they or inhaling in, it is more harmful to the people who don’t smoke than to the ones that do smoke because of the fumes and chemicals the smoke emits. Second hand smoke has 4,000 chemical compounds, 200 of which are known to be poisonous. Second hand smoke causes a lot of health problems. Studies show that second hand smoke has higher concentrations of cancer causing agents then the people who do smoke. Another study shows that an estimate of 46,000 deaths from heart disease, about 3,400 deaths of lung cancer a year are caused by second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is more harmful to children than adults because children’s bodies are still growing at a young age and to inhale the smoke puts them at risk for severe respiratory diseases and

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