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Most of the firms, organization and companies as well as
governments impose restrictions to
smoke in work places and public amenities. It has become
fashionable in the world today to
blame smoking.However,
although I feel that smoking can be harmful, but I don’t think it
should be forbidden completely. I would also argue that people should have the right whether
or not they should smoke.
Allow me
to present the three positive sides of smoking. Firstly, smoking certainly
helps many people to relax. For some, it even improves concentration. If
someone is upset owing to debt or they have exam, like to
smoke to reduce the pressure or tension. Most
of the people like to smoke when
they are relaxing with friends. Secondly, governments throughout the world make
huge profits from taxes on cigarettes. The income obtained through taxes
provides funds which are used for building school,
hospital and public places such
as parks, gardens, sports ground and foot paths. Thirdly, tobacco industry also
employs tens of thousands of people all over the world, particularly in poorer
countries such as Zimbabwe or India. Without cigarettes, these people would
have no jobs.
Despite these
positive effects there are lots of negative effects to
smoking too. Initially, smoking has been proven to be very dangerous for
health. As one cigarette contains more than 4000
chemical substances, therefore, it causes
for many dangerous diseases such
as heart attacks, asthma, bronchitis or lung cancer. According to a recent
report in Britain close to 3,500 people are killed each year in road accidents
and 120,000 are killed by smoking. Furthermore, smoking costs governments
millions of dollars because of the large number of people who need treatment in
hospitals for smoking-related problems. Moreover, passive smoking is also a
major concern today. Recent research shows that non-smokers can suffer from health
problems if they spend long periods of time among people who do smoke. In the
UK children whose parents are smoke are three times as likely to start
smoking themselves _.
In short, I think
the world would be a better place without cigarettes. However, the decision of
whether _ smoke or not to smoke should be for
each individual to make. I suggest that people should not smoke in a room or a
place where there are non smokers, however they should be free to smoke
elsewhere.
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