Furthermore, the people of the UK want smoking to be banned. The public have realised the health risks from smoking. For example in a poll of around 1,500 people, 52% of the people asked said that they would support a ban of smoking in public places. Surprisingly one third of these people were smokers. Evidently smoking in public should be banned because even the smokers would support this ban, showing that they know that smoking in public and having other people breath in their second hand smoke, is damaging those other people’s health and is unfair on them.
Thirdly, the amount of smoking related illnesses that have to be treated in hospitals are costing the National Health Service much money each year. One point seven billion pounds is spent each year, this is a ridiculous amount of money that could be spent on something much more useful, like treating patients who have not brought the illnesses on themselves. Can you imagine having a relative who needs an immediate operation for heart failure and cannot go in because there is a smoker in the operating theatre, the relative dies and the smoker survives, is this fair?
Additionally, passive smoking is awfully harmful to young children, as they are still developing and having the harmful chemicals inside them will damage their organs. It has been found that passive smoking significantly increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. These are unnecessary deaths and if smoking in public places was banned most of these could have been prevented. But, some of these deaths cannot have been prevented, because some of the children who suffer are put in this danger by their irresponsible parents. How can a parent who really loves their child expose them to the harmful chemicals of smoke? It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
Women carry a chemical around their eyes and their mouth; this is the chemical that attracts the opposite sex to them. Smoking kills these chemicals, as does passive smoking. I find it terrible that women are losing this chemical and most will be oblivious to this fact.
Finally, if smoking was banned in public places I feel that it would drastically cut down on the amount of smokers that there are in this country. Many people smoke ‘socially’ and if smoking in a pub for example were to be banned, then those individuals would not ever smoke; protecting their health as well as the health of others around them.
In conclusion, I think that smoking must be banned. People are dying without having any control, women are losing their appeal to the opposite sex and children are having their organs damaged. There is no other option than to ban smoking in public places.
