Working Conditions

New York 's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants is very agreeable in my opinion for many reasons . Even paralleling it to a miner 's case in which they accept the potential harm the job might cause them , the same principles of safety and working conditions are still present in the banning of smoking in bars and restaurants . Whether or not second hand smoke is more or less lethal than the studies churn out , the basic tenet of this argument is that second hand smoke is still a health concern no matter

how small it is and that the effects of it is not negligible as all studies concur

First off , let 's take care of the parallelism of accepting work hazards In the mining industry , toxic gasses , dangers of cave-ins and other potentially fatal hazards are known to all workers and operators . In the reasoning of those who are against the new policy , employees and customers who go into these places accept the potential hazard to their health , much in the same way mine workers accept theirs . However , there is an obvious hole in this argument . Mining safety standards are one of the most stringent and important operational fundamentals of the industry . Without it , companies would be shut down . This proves that people 's health is indeed at the forefront of society 's concern . Masks safety equipment and other paraphernalia are used by the workers to ensure that they would not get toxicity levels in their blood to...