The Debate of Banning Smoking in Public Places

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The Debate of Banning Smoking in Public Places

“There is no difference between a smoker and a suicide, only that one

takes longer to kill themselves than the other”.

Everyone has their rights, and if you want to smoke or not should be

your choice because you are doing the damage to your own body. But if

it’s supposed to be your choice and every gets their own choice then

when you smoke in public places or wherever anyone is around you, you

are making that choice for them and damaging their body not just

yours. Is this unfair? Throughout this essay I will discuss the pros

and cons of smoking and smoking in public places and discuss how

smoking affects you and others around you.

Most people are unaware that one cigarette contains over 4,000 gases

and chemicals, many of which are poisonous. These substances include

ammonia (found in cleaning fluids),carbon monoxide (the deadly gas in

car exhaust fumes) and tar (which contains chemicals proven to cause

cancer). When cigarette smoke is inhaled, these lethal substances pass

into the body. But not only the body of the people that chose for that

to happen but of people that didn’t choose and also for unborn babies.

As any substance which enters a pregnant woman, will also enter the

babies bloodstream. Research shows that woman who smoke whilst

pregnant stand a much higher chance of their baby dying, being born

prematurely or not weighing as much as they should.

Smoking causes 100,000 premature deaths a year in Britain. Nine out of

ten deaths from lung cancer are caused by smoking. Nearly a quarter of

heart diseases are caused by smoking, and also less obvious things are

caused by ...

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...ave give up smoking in the UK many young people are

trying it for the first time this second.

We are encouraged to cut down on junk food and it is too be much less

available and alcohol should be soon too but why not cigarettes. The

NHS spends billions each year on diseases caused by smoking. But if

our country cant come to face facts and do this grand deed of banning

smoking in public places then the least they can do is educate our

children and gear them away from smoking as this is where the risk

begins. Stopping smoking or helping and encouraging our children not

to smoke is vital. There are many organizations available to help

smokers but above all we must remember that we are the ones to make a

difference by stressing to our younger generation that smoking is a

killer, and can only ever be described as SUICIDE.

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