Stop Smoking Out Country's Future
Stop smoking out country’s future
Ban on smoking is absolutely justifiable. Smoking is a health hazard and moreover the ill effects of passive smoking are far more than that of active smoking. More and more countries are realizing this very fact and hence, are implementing such bans through law and legislation in order to save the non-smokers.
Hazards of smoking have already been proven by medical science. Documented reports also support the consensus that more people die every year because of exposure to nicotine as compared to non users. Thought nicotine consumed in any form or any route has hazardous effect on the body smoking in particular has much more as not only does the active smoking but the passive smoking also affects the non-smokers standing nearby.
Governments around the world have taken variety of multiple steps to reduce the menace of this evil in the society which includes ban at public places; consumption by aged below 25 yrs as an offence etc. but to what extent it has been effective is a debatable point.
Smoking not only harms the society by affecting the health of individuals through active and passive smoking only but this habit does spread very rapidly in the youth specially school and college kids who when see their peers smoking consider it as a social status/fashion statement/manliness and quickly get into the same.
Some people may argue that by banning smoking state would be impinging upon their rights. But this is very futile to think this way as smoking is not any right which is very absolute, but the right to life itself is. While nobody indulges into individual’s right to smoke when inside their homes, but they do when it is done outside in public areas which definitely harms the people around them who are non-smokers.
One of the advantages of banning smoking in public areas would be that even the regular smokers would be forced to curtail their habits as most of people do smoke when outside and in company of friends.
Thus, it
Ban on smoking is absolutely justifiable. Smoking is a health hazard and moreover the ill effects of passive smoking are far more than that of active smoking. More and more countries are realizing this very fact and hence, are implementing such bans through law and legislation in order to save the non-smokers.
Hazards of smoking have already been proven by medical science. Documented reports also support the consensus that more people die every year because of exposure to nicotine as compared to non users. Thought nicotine consumed in any form or any route has hazardous effect on the body smoking in particular has much more as not only does the active smoking but the passive smoking also affects the non-smokers standing nearby.
Governments around the world have taken variety of multiple steps to reduce the menace of this evil in the society which includes ban at public places; consumption by aged below 25 yrs as an offence etc. but to what extent it has been effective is a debatable point.
Smoking not only harms the society by affecting the health of individuals through active and passive smoking only but this habit does spread very rapidly in the youth specially school and college kids who when see their peers smoking consider it as a social status/fashion statement/manliness and quickly get into the same.
Some people may argue that by banning smoking state would be impinging upon their rights. But this is very futile to think this way as smoking is not any right which is very absolute, but the right to life itself is. While nobody indulges into individual’s right to smoke when inside their homes, but they do when it is done outside in public areas which definitely harms the people around them who are non-smokers.
One of the advantages of banning smoking in public areas would be that even the regular smokers would be forced to curtail their habits as most of people do smoke when outside and in company of friends.
Thus, it