Persuasive Essay: The Dangers Of Ban Smoking In Public

Ban Smoking in Public Imagine sitting in a park and enjoying the beautiful clean air and all of a sudden a dark cloud of toxic smoke overpowers the fresh air. Look around and there is someone happily puffing away on a cigarette. Rarely does any person that smokes have any regard for the people around them that don’t smoke. The cigarette is a defective product, meaning not dangerous but unreasonably dangerous. Although the smoker decides to decrease his or her life expectancy there is no regard for the public people who chose not to participate in this type of self-destructive behavior. Smoking cigarettes in public should be banned for the health and safety of people who choose not to participate in this unhealthy and life threatening behavior. Second hand smoke can be harmful in multiple ways. When a person smokes a cigarette most of the smoke escapes into the air rather than into their lungs, leaving 7,000 chemicals floating into the lungs of a non-smoker. According to a Surgeon

Cigarette smoke clings to anything it comes into contact with leaving an unpleasant surprise for a non-smoker who disturbs the item it has seeped into. Cigarette smoke tends to leave a thin layer of film that sticks to walls and tables that other people who are non- smokers use putting their health at risk. A person with asthma may walk into a room and sit on a chair that was previously occupied by a smoker and have an asthma attack because they disturbed the odor that was left behind. Although it can be argued the smell or the thin layer of film left by cigarette smoke cannot really affect someone. Smokers are hardly bothered by the smell of the cigarettes so they don’t notice how awful the scent could be to people who don’t smoke. Banning smoking in public would rid public places of unpleasant odors and make the environment more pleasant for the people who don’t