Is There Room For Smoking in Public Places?

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Is There Room For Smoking in Public Places?

        One thing that really ‘gets up my nose’ is inhaling other people’s stale cigarette smoke against my will. It’s about time that’s smoking in public places in this country was stamped out once and for all.

        There is nothing worse than coming home from a night out at a nice restaurant or a party and finding that your clothes smell disgusting because they have been saturated with the stench of smoke. I’m not the only person who is fed up with this, but I’m not against other people smoking; I just wish that I had a choice whether or not I came home smelling like a dirty ashtray.

        Another thing I really hate is walking down the street behind someone with a cigarette. Every time they exhale, out comes that cloud of stale smoke and bang, you walk straight into it and aside from crossing over to the other side of the street there is very little you can do about it. It is not a pleasant experience and it is something I could live quite happily without. I know there are a lot of people in this country that smoke who become annoyed with people telling them about their bad habit, but the simple fact is that smokers are affecting the health of non-smokers as well as their own. Hundreds of people die each year just because they have breathed other people’s smoke. That is something we should be taking seriously. In my opinion an outright ban on smoking in public places is the only way forward.

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        Researchers in Argentina examined two thousand non-smokers’ health and concluded a number of things. Those who lived with a spouse who smoked more than twenty cigarettes a day had nearly two and a half times the risk of lung cancer more than those married to a non-smoker. They also concluded that those married to a lighter smoker or those who came into direct contact with a smoker at work or other places still saw their risk of lung cancer double. When high risk factors such as high blood pressure were present passive smoking intensified the danger.

        Passive smoking has ...

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