Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places
Smoking Should Be Banned In Public Places Smoking is currently under siege as never before with a spate of high profile health injuries cases. Cigarette smoke, a dangerous chemical, consists of both active smoke and passive smoke, through which people may inhale. Non-smokers meet smokers in many public places like restaurants, railway stations, buses, offices, etc. Both active smokers and passive smokers are equally affected. Based on two realistic factors including the health affection and the environment pollution that directly relate to the community, it is supposed that smoking should be banned in public places. Whilst almost people are aware of the damage that smoking does to our bodies, few are aware of the effects that smoking has on the environment. Tobacco factories release poisonous fumes into the atmosphere, whereas smokers cause air pollution in public places. Moreover, cigarette butts and filters easily make their way into streams, rivers and lakes where marine animals can ingest them by mistaking for food and finally, they often die. Furthermore, millions of cigarette butts are discarded on the ground everyday. Whereas it takes an average of 25 years to decompose, all of the chemicals leach into the ground and pollute the soil and the plants. It also needs a lot of trees to produce and package cigarettes. Those trees could filter out the pollutants in the air instead of being chopped down for the cause of adding new ones. Cigarettes is the major fire hazard cause of forest in dry weather and home fires that release harmful smoke into the atmosphere each year. Acknowledged these extensive damages to our environment, smokers ought to adapt themselves to the public’s needs rather than the individual satisfaction. Through the demystification of scientific experiments, cigarette smoke has a tremendous amount of 400 substances such as nicotine, tar, phenol, carbon monoxide, dioxin, etc. All these chemicals are considered to be
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