Should smoking be prohibited in public places?

The first 200 words of this essay...

09th December 2001

Composition III

Shane Denson

Monday, 11-13

Maja Szydlowska

The Nine Paragraph Analytical Essay:

Should smoking be prohibited in public places?

Have you ever noticed that whenever you are in a circle of friends and there is a smoker among them, they all go and sit down in the smoking area for the sake of the smoker? And have you ever noticed that whenever somebody smokes, the surrounding area within a radius of at least three metres has the pleasure to enjoy the smoke? The discussion on the prohibition of smoking in public places has been going on since years, and it is now actualised one more time by the announcement of the Deutsche Bahn according to which smoking on railway platforms will be prohibited. After presenting the opposite view, I will argue that smoking should be forbidden in public, using a few arguments which I will defend against possible counterarguments to prove my point of view.

One of the most important laws of the German Constitution is the principle of freedom. Anyone has the right to realise himself as long as nobody else