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should smoking be banned?

(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , 2009 . This is a classical demonstration of how an informed public and a responsible political leadership can impact positive health-related changes to the society

On the other hand , one might be forced to wonder whether there is anything positive associated with smoking . Those who see smoking as a leisure activity argue that smokers , just like drinkers , have the right to go on with their activities without being restricted or stigmatized What the proponents of smoking do not seem to comprehend is that unlike other pass

time activities , smoking in public involves everyone near the smoker it is practically impossible to control the direction of a puff of smoke ! Human rights issues cease to be rights when they start crossing boundaries and begin to infringe on other people 's rights smoking also therefore ceases to be a personal undertaking as long as it is going on in public (Gurchiek , 2005

Arguments have been put across that a ban on smoking will negatively affect businesses whose foundations are grounded in the tobacco industry , and by extension to other stake holders . It is true that governments that collect large sums of revenue from the tobacco industry risk loosing this much needed revenue if the ban is implemented (Foulkes , 2003 . On the other hand , governments actually spend colossal amounts of money in treating health complications that are directly or indirectly associated with smoking , not to mention the amount of workforce they loose due to incapacitation or death . The net loss incurred in smoking environments is significantly higher than that that would be lost if smoking was banned (Foulkes , 2003 . A study carried out by the centre for disease Control and Prevention (CDC ) shows that each state spends between 40 million to 3 .3 billion on management of smoking-attributable...

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