Banning smoking in public places

Banning smoking in public places

Many researches have prove smoking is dangerous to health. In consequence, the last years have had strong campaigns against this problem. There are many reasons to banning smoking in public places. This essay will explain some arguments to support it.

First of all, the worst effect over health is when you are a passive smoker, because an investigation generated evidence that secondhand smoke causes the same problem as direct smoking, including lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and lung ailments such as emphysema, bronchitis, and asthma.

Moreover, meta-analyses show that lifelong non-smokers with partners who smoke in the home have 20-30% greater risk of lung cancer than nonsmokers who lived with nonsmokers. Nonsmokers exposed to cigarette smoke in the workplace have an increased lung cancer risk 16-19%.

On the other hand, cigarette manufacturers argument they are free to sell its, because consumer takes the decision to buy or not the product. For example, in Netherlands there aren’t bans against it.

In brief, banning smoking in public places is support in health problems it causes; however, in some countries it isn’t prohibited. In my opinion, people should think more in healthy activities like sports to have a long and satisfactory life.