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HAZARDS OF SMOKING IN PUBLIC

HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES

This paper will discuss the ramifications of smoking cigarettes in public places. The thesis of-this paper is that smoking tobacco in public places is detrimental to everyone's health. This paper will point out how secondhand, or passive, smoke is dangerous and adversely affects people's health. This paper will also discuss the hazards smoke from cigarettes poses to nonsmokers. The discussion will be divided into the following five parts: the first part will introduce the paper's thesis; the second part will present the arguments against smoking and secondhand smoke; the third part will refute the arguments against smoking; the fourth part will present responses to the arguments against smoking; and the conclusion will take the position that cigarette smoking in public places should be banned.

The consensus among health experts in this country and in other developed countries is that smoking is hazardous to smokers as well as to those who do not actively smoke cigarettes. This phenomenon is popularly known as passive smoking, since the persons affected are not cigarette smokers but those who are forced to breathe the cigarette smoke exhaled by cigarette smokers. The smoke which is generated by passive smoking is often referred to as secondhand smoke.

As will be discussed in the paragraphs below, cigarette smoke poses serious health risks to persons who live and work with smokers. The health effects of such passive smoking are becoming more widely known as more studies are completed. In addition, the situation is becoming more dangerous because the tobacco industry is waging a vigorous campaign to downplay the adverse health effects of secondhand cigarette smoke. This situation may become even more serious, especially if the tobacco industry's campaign to attract new smokers continues to influence teenagers, who some reports claim, "are the prime target in the tobacco...

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