Should Smoking Be Public Spaces Should Be Allowed?

Smoking is an activity that has been around for many years for people to use and adapt into their lifestyle. It is a tool that many people use to help reduce the stresses of life and put them in a comfortable position that enables them to cope with the hectic lifestyle they are living. However, smoking has been scientifically proven to cause many types of cancer, the most common being lung cancer resulting in numerous deaths across the United States. According to BBC, "Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease" (BBC, 2). Evidently, the benefits and drawbacks of smoking have been debated for many years, and only recently have some countries have placed a ban in public places such as Britain and the United

Many drugs are used, misused, and abused in American society today. Some of these carry stigma in the general population, forcing users into an underground drug subculture. Others are accepted and almost promoted under certain circumstances. Tobacco is one of those drugs. Tobacco will be discussed in the context of cigarette smoking. This is not to undermine the existence or danger of other forms of tobacco, but instead to have an exhaustive discussion of cigarette smoking and its societal impact. Cigarettes are a means of inhaling tobacco, where it enters the lungs and is absorbed through the blood vessels, traveling to the heart, from which it is finally pumped to the brain (Hogan, Gabrielsen, Luna, and Grothaus 2003:76). Cigarettes are detrimental to society because they not only affect the user who chooses to smoke; they impact people around them through second-hand and residual smoke. The damage done by cigarettes is not impossible to address. Successful prevention measures are already in place, but this paper intends to suggest other more direct measures, especially related to statutory regulations.

The author in the article Good Anthropological Reasons for Unsettling the Public Health Grip stated that the banning of smoking in public place has decline immensely (Dennis, 2013). Smoking is a personal choice but the non smoker has a choice to rather to inhale second hand smoke.

People should be more cautious when it comes to vaping because the people around them may not want that to in there face or seen with there kids. I think that instead of going in like restaurants and doing it or in stores they should do it at a park or a vape shop and maybe at home would be good so nobody us exposed to that. Vaping should be illegal because it's really not good for people at it makes them look not so very smart. People should be more aware of the effects on there life people just think that it's not gonna do anything to you because it's not smoking and even though there isn’t nicotine in it it's still has nicotine in it and can still damage your lungs. People shouldn't vape in public places because it is very disturbing.

Smoking is an expensive habit. People who smoke cigarettes can spend as much as $2,500 a year on them. Smokers’ claim that it helps relax them and it releases stress but the negative aspects of smoking outweigh the positive. Smoking is a health hazard for smokers and non-smokers. Smokers should have the right to choose what to do with their own health but they should respect non-smokers. Many people believe that there are good and bad outcomes from smoking. I believe that smoking is bad and that it should be banned.

There are over 1.1 billion smokers in the world-- fifteen percent of the entire population. It is said that one in every three adults is a chronic smoker. Even in America, one of the most progressive countries in the world, forty-two million (about 12.5%) people smoke chronically. Given this astonishing number, it is no surprise that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, responsible for one in every five deaths. Only to add to that, more than 16 million Americans live with a smoking related disease. Since the 1960’s the United States government has attempted to curb these numbers as much as possible; from settling cases in the supreme court to passing new laws and regulations to counter the use of tobacco,

The purpose of this policy is to define public outdoor areas where smoking is banned to create outdoor smoke free conditions .

Even though there are thousands of smokers in the U.S., we need to consider how much it will help to ban public smoking in more places. Since 2000 over half of the states

Smoking has become a health hazard to the world today, and there is no better way to settle the problem other than executing illegal smoking. Smoking causes approximately 40% more pollution than diesel car exhaust and is the leading cause of pollution due to its fine particulate matter. Former Professor in medicine, Anthony Rebuck states, “There is a triple threat[danger]… to human health… and it is due to people smoking.” Even though society

@In America there are few topics which the general public has both fought against and supported for an elongated period of time such as the one of smoking laws. Back in 1964 the first surgeon general’s report on the adverse effects of smoking was published (1). Only a year had passed since the reports was published when the first law was set in place, the (cigarette labeling and advertising act of 1965) was the first of many laws that would be passed over the last 60 years (1). By 1971 the surgeon general had proposed a federal ban in public places followed by a report in 1972 that talked about the effects of secondhand smoke (1). Arizona was the first state to restrict smoking in public places but was soon followed by Connecticut and Minnesota. A few years later in 1986 the surgeon general released a report which focused on the consequences of secondhand smoke the report claimed that secondhand smoke was the cause of lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. That same year the national research council issued a report on health consequences of involuntary smoking, as a result the American’s for nonsmokers rights became a national group. By January of 2014, 28 states had enacted statewide bans on smoking in all public places, with a few exceptions such as bars or other such places but there are laws that prohibit smoking in all 50 states in one form or another. Currently the limitations of where one may smoke are not the only laws that have been set in place. Currently tobacco is

The idea of tobacco shifting the way people socialize because of the diverse preference of smokers and non smoking is evident. Public health is the work and devotion of the public. There is an outstanding amount of evidence that smoking has been the leading cause of death in those who smoke and those who are the victim of second hand smoke. Smoking has become a public health issue because of the dangerous effects posed by smokers for non smoking bystanders. If smoking can kill over 400,000 people every year what are the chances that this booming industry can also take the lives of almost a half a million subjected to second hand smoke in the future. The article examines the uphill battle of nicotine in America verses public health. Examples presented in the articles states the concern of those who are not smokers and the public health’s right to protect the public. Such examples are fetuses, babies, women, and men in public settings breathing in the toxic fumes of cigarettes that may ultimately lead to death. The campaign article (2002) states the compelling debate that nonsmokers have as much right to clean air as smokers have

I’ve decided to analyze the negative externalities that come from cigarette smoking, particularly the negative externality of second hand smoking, in which a non-smoker, therefore a non-buyer and non-seller, is still inhaling smoke and suffering from it. "Worldwide, 40% of children, 33% of male non-smokers, and 35% of female non-smokers were exposed to second-hand smoke in 2004. This exposure was estimated to have caused 379000 deaths from ischaemic heart disease, 165000 from lower respiratory infections, 36900 from asthma, and 21400 from lung cancer."(Öberg, 2010). Due to this negative externality, if there is no government intervention, then cigarettes will be overproduced from what is socially optimal.

Cigarette smoking is one of the worst possible things you could do to your body. Cigarettes kill roughly “480,000 people a year in the United states” according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). So why do we still allow them to be sold? Why are we advertising cigarettes in a way that makes younger people want to start smoking? How is that the government know for a fact the cigarettes cause serious health and death, but still does almost nothing about it? In this essay I am going to tell you the facts about why cigarettes should be banned in the U.S. I'm going to talk about the effects smoking cigarettes has on the human body. How smokers cost the healthcare system almost 200 billion dollars a year. And how tobacco businesses are spending billions of dollars a year to keep people smoking

With over 300 million smokers around the globe, it begs the question of how their choice to smoke cigarettes is not only affecting themselves in the short run but also long term. Short term effects include frequent cough, colds, bronchitis, as well as pneumonia. The long-term effects are much grimmer than the short term. Long term effects include but not limited to cancer of the throat, lung, and mouth. Smoking also increases the chances of stomach, kidney, and pancreatic cancer Women who smoke while pregnant increase the risks to the unborn baby such as premature birth, and small birth weight. Teens who smoke are more likely to become addicted to cigarettes. They also face a larger risk for getting lung cancer than those who start later

One of the major reasons for death and preventable diseases is tobacco use. Just in the United States of America, smoking has found to be the cause of “over 40,000 deaths due to heart disease and over 200,000 episodes of childhood asthma per year” (Naiman et al 1). Some of these cases could be specifically linked to secondhand smoke, “defined as an involuntary exposure to a combination of diluted cigarette side stream smoke and the exhaled smoke from smokers” (Naiman et al 1). Greenwald found that “by 2015, 36 states and 4,177 municipalities in the USA had enacted law that restricted where smoking was allowed” (101). Smoking in public places should not be allowed because