Eth Module 5 Case

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The Rationality of Banning Smoking

Abstract : This short deals with the moral propriety of banning smoking in public places using both utilitarian and Kantian approaches While both approaches provide a solid theoretical base to begin , the theories of ethics here do no justify an outright ban of smoking everywhere

The literature on the health affects of smoke , both first and second hand , is too well known and cited to be cited here . There are no figures in the medical establishment that support smoking as a

health aid or even as a health-neutral pastime . Hence , the literature on smoke can be bypassed and the conclusion held that there is no question that cigarette smoke contains substantial health risks such as lung cancer and other cancers , high blood pressure , extends illness recovery time and interferes with medications . This is the short list . But the purpose of this is to use both consequentialist and deontological understandings of ethics and ethical action to either reject or accept the recent state banns on smoking in public places , including new York City , Delaware and California . This will use both approaches to demonstrate the ethical propriety of banning smoking in public places

The consequentialist ideas concerning this ban are the easiest and simplest to manifest . The utilitarians , from Bentham to Adam Smith , see right-making ' properties in the consequences of actions . In their case , the famed slogan : the greatest happiness of the greatest number Even David Hume might be...