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Banning Smoking in Public Places
Summary: Discusses the dangers of smoking and the possibility of banning smoking in public places. Analyzes the dangers of second hand smoke to non smokers.
Have you ever had to walk through a crowd of smokers just to get into a building and you find yourself coughing, having trouble breathing, and even smelling like smoke? Neither situation is pleasant. I will be arguing the banning of smoking in public places for the safety of our citizens. Although smokers may argue their right to smoke in public smoking is hazardous to disabled, asthmatics, and even healthy people; smoking in public areas where there is congested people should be banned.
Smoking is unhealthy not just for the smoker but for the innocent bystander as well. Secondhand smoking is the third leading cause of preventable death and can be prevented! Smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, 50 of which are known to be cancer-related. Secondhand smoke has been linked to heart and respiratory disease, lung, breast, cervical, and nasal sinus cancers, strokes and miscarriages. In children, dangers include sudden...
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