Case: Working Conditions

Running Head : BAN ON SMOKING IN BARS AND RESTAURANT : Ban on Smoking in Bars and Restaurant

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Introduction

The banning of smoking in bars and restaurant in New York was necessary especially if you look at it from the normative ethics point of view Normative ethics is a theory that is concerned on how we live . It is very distinct from metaethics and applied ethics . The great things to note in normative ethics are the person or entity who is involved in perpetuating the act . The second thing is

the act itself which will affect the person doing it . The third principle governing normative ethics is the consequences that arise from the combination of the first two elements of this ethics (Shelly , 1998

Smoking is a luxury activity which is not practiced by many but a few individuals who have got extra money to spare but not necessarily money wastage . On the other hand , there is nothing wrong with it because it can not be viewed from a moral point of view since it is a matter of choice on individual . It becomes a moral issue when its practice starts on infringing the rights of other people and its outcome is harming other people as well as the perpetrator . There are theories that govern normative ethics which must have been taken into account at the time the ban was enforced (Frederic , 2006 . Among the key things considered here were the health and safety of the workers , the environment...