HAZARDS OF SMOKING IN PUBLIC

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 smo

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mary exposure to passive cigarette smoke occurred in public places. Thus, the ill effects of sharing an elevator with a person smoking a cigarette went beyond the commonly expected cough and teary eyes (Janofsky, 1993, p. D1). The E.P.A.'s studies soon provoked widespread efforts to eliminate smoking in public buildings in many cities and eventually led to the prohibition of smoking on all airline flights within the United States. III. OBJECTIONS TO ARGUMENT The reaction of the tobacco industry to the aforementioned reports which asserted that smoking was harmful was predictable. The tobacco industry hired researchers to attack the studies and to come up with evidence that smoking was not nearly so harmful as many were saying it was. First, the cigarette manufacturers tried to refute the E.P.A.'s findings by arguing that smoking was not very harmful to smokers. However, the tobacco industry's own researchers found that the government studies were essentially correct. In fact, a study conducted by a team of scientists hired by the Philip Morris Company found that laboratory rats became addicted to nicotine just as they would to notoriously addictive narcotics, such as heroin and other morphine derivatives. When company
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Approximate Word count = 2726
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)

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