The government should either stop people smoking completely or make them cut back because if they cut smoking back it would improve the health of non-smokers health would be-able to live longer because they wouldn’t have to inhale the smoke. Also, if the government stopped people smoking it would make the smokers health better as well because they would be-able to live longer and they would have more money because they wouldn’t have to waste there money on buying the cigarettes.
The fourth reason why I think Wales should ban on smoking in public places is that it would help prevent fires, for example forestry and commission areas. It would prevent fires because people wouldn’t be throwing there cigarette ends on the ground. That would also reduce the amount of litter being thrown on the ground for example cigarette packaging, cigarette ends, lighters, match boxes and matches.
Additionally, workers should have the right to breathe clean air when they are working instead of the smoky air that they are already breathing. Some of the workers that I am talking about are people who work in pubs and restaurants.
On the other hand, there are some reasons why Wales should not follow Ireland and England’s ban on smoking in public places. The first reason why I think they should not ban smoking in public places is that smokers should be-able to smoke because it is their life to live be it?
Additionally, if the government banned smoking in public places it would lead to criminalising smoking this mean s they will turn to crime if they couldn’t smoke.
The third reason why I think the government shouldn’t ban smoking in public places, is that the government would lose money they currently raise from tax, so they would have to put the tax up on other products to make up the money they will lose from the tax on cigarettes. Furthermore the factories that make the cigarettes would also lose money from the sale of cigarettes so they wouldn’t need all the staff they have now which would mean lots of people would be out of a job.
The argument that I found most compelling is to ban smoking in public places because when we done a survey in the class most people where for the ban. The results of the survey where 80% for the ban and 20% against the ban. I also agree with this argument because it would improve the health of the non-smokers because they wouldn’t have to inhale the smoke from the cigarettes which the smokers are smoking, it would also reduce the amount of litter in and around the environment that we live.