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Cigarette Smoking - School Essays

Cigarette Smoking

For a long time now many people have different views about smoking in
public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they
want. On the other hand non-smokers feel smokers violate their rights and
endanger there life. Smoking causes heart disease, lung cancer and other
serious illnesses. Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of lung
cancer. A substantial number of lung cancers that occur in non-smokers can
be attributed to involuntary smoking. There are some parts in the United
States where you can smoke in public places, on the other hand in New York
there are designated areas. While some people feel that smoking in public
places should remain since it is ...

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problem for
smokers, now they have to go outside even in the winter to have a cigarette,
even though they used to be able to smoke inside.A strong supporter on
smokers rights is Democratic Assemblyman Dick Floyd, who wanted to vote for
a controversial smokers right bill. He feels it is not a smoking bill, it
merely protects the people who use legal substances such as tobacco and
alcohol in their homes from job discrimination.

However, smoking in public places is a danger to non-smokers health
for the reason of passive or second-hand smoke. The public does not realize
the significant hazards of passive smoking. A U.S enviromental protection
agency stated second-hand smoke is the third major cause of lung cancer in
the United States. The simple separation of smokers within the same air
space may reduce, but does not eliminate exposure to passive smoke. In
Arizona five thousand and six hundred Americans died in 1989 due to passive
smoke. A recent federal Environmental ...

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Added: 5/12/2005 02:39:45 PM
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