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Jacen Duplain 11/01/2020 English Composition 1

Ban On Smoking In Public Smoking is a common everyday occurrence among many people around the world. It isn't an oddity to see people smoking while walking, sitting in parks relaxing or while driving in their cars. Smoking cigarettes can cause lung cancer for smokers and nonsmokers. The history of the first known smoking restrictions was in 1590 when Pope Urban VII would excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe, or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose." It isn't against the law to smoke, but the places you can now smoke at are quickly decreasing. In 1993 at Denny's restaurant in California, a nonsmoker by the name of Rachelle Rashan asked a smoker named Daphyne Luster to please put her cigarette out. Ms. Luster complied without incident. After her meal, Ms. Luster left the restaurant and returned a short time later and shot Ms. Rashan with a 12-gauge shotgun (Tyler, page 1). Tobacco is unlike any other legal product; it is the only available consumer product that is hazardous to health when used as intended. The harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke or more commonly known as "second-hand smoke," is one of the first dividers between smokers and nonsmokers (Tyler, 1).

Smoking in all local public areas should be banned, not only in the country but across the world. Smoking causes health issues for smokers and nonsmokers as well. "During the past three decades, definitive evidence has accumulated that second-hand smoke causes serious disease and shortens life span" (Eisner). It's common sense that smoking in all shared public areas should be banned entirely. The message is clear that smoking causes health issues. Smokers suffer from many health issues that have been proven to be the direct cause of smoking. Smoking highly causes cancers, heart problems, respiratory diseases, and many other health issues. Smoking generally causes illnesses and conditions that are frequently fatal. The same could be said about second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke is also dangerous, which is emitted from tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, and Ecigarettes. It's also smoke, which has been exhaled by a smoker near a non-smoker. "Tobacco smoke contains more than seven thousand chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and about seventy that can cause cancer" (CDC, 2017). It is for this reason, and many more, that smoking in all public areas needed to be banned. The ban for smoking in public places/areas began quite a few years ago, although outlawing smoking in all public sectors has been quite a slow process that still isn't complete. The first issuance of information regarding smoking being detrimental to health was not issued by the Surgeon General until the year 1964. This acknowledgment of smoking causing health problems lead to companies adding warning labels being attached in all tobacco products during that year and years that followed.

In 1971 the initial push began to ban smoking in public places. During that same year, the federal government recommended a ban on smoking in all public areas. Throughout the rest of the years in the 1970s, and the entirety of the 1980s and the 1990s, different states across our nation began banning smoking in certain public places like courthouses, open offices, restaurants, etc. It was during those years as well that varying studies began to shed light on the real seriousness of smoking on health. It took some years of testing and many campaigns by the health departments using social venues to advise the public about the effects of smoking. As smokers continue to complain about their rights that are being violated, the real victim in this equation is the nonsmoker. Not having an option on breathing or not, they are forced to inhale second-hand smoke or change their lifestyle to avoid it. Environmental tobacco smoke is amplified in their effects on children (Tyler, 2). Tobacco, which is a legal product to use, is different in the risk associated with it. Not only does tobacco contain dangerous products, but also it is addictive. Second-hand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke is more dangerous than the mainstream smoke components because second-hand smoke is more carcinogenic, and the particles in second-hand smoke are often smaller. They can make it deeper into the lungs (Anderson, 361). Society has recognized that people have the right not to be involuntarily exposed to second-hand smoke. The ban on smoking at any public location is at the forefront of protecting nonsmokers. Banning smoking in public places is supported by so many scientific and medical reasons. Smoking affects the smoker and nonsmoker, and these effects are taking a toll on our society. Society should recommend the ban on smoking in public places but also

agree that people as a society should share the burden of co-existing. Changing the norms of smoking will prepare us to reduce tobacco, and people exposed to secondhand smoking. People don't publicize smoking as a cool thing to do, and advertising of cigarettes has gone in a new direction. Smokers have so many obstacles to negotiate that smoking becomes less enjoyable than it did say 30 years ago. People also have to take charge and accountability of their health and understand the damage their body is being exposed to when they smoke. The new generation thinks they are safer with the E-cigarettes, but a further study shows it is worse than smoke since it's highly concentrated. It is going to take more testing and, unfortunately, more cases to show that e-cigarettes also can produce second- hand smoking damages to the public.

References CDC. "CDC - Fact Sheet - Second-hand Smoke - Smoking & Tobacco Use." 21 February. 2017, www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand_smoke/general_facts/ind e Here's Smoking with Your Kid, oralcancerfoundation.com. 2010, Oral Cancer Foundation, http://oralcancerfoundation.org/people/humphrey_bogart.htm Tyler, Michele. Blowing Smoke: Do smokers have a right? Limiting the privacy rights of cigarette smokers. Georgetown Law Journal 86. 3. (Jan 1998): 783–811 Wylie 5 x.htm. Debate.org. "Smoking in Public Places." The Premier Online Debate Website | Debate.org, www.debate.org/opinions/should-you-be-allowed-to-smoke-in-public-places.

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