Smoking in public - Research Paper Example

But the topic here leaves no room for debate for the opposite side. How come there are any ‘pros’ of smoking in public? A simple search on Google is enough to make one realize, smoking doesn’t really have a pro. Alright, a smoker might argue; the beautiful roll (cigarette) provides the necessary escape from problems (life). But dear smoker, no one asked you to drag everyone sitting at the bus stop to your beautiful fantasy world. Just let them stay in real life and not in the smoke world.

ScienceDaily is a popular source of research based news and in one of their post (2009), research shows that among younger individuals and nonsmokers, risk of heart attacks is considerably reduced when they don’t inhale passive smoke (public smoke from someone else sitting at a public place and having that ‘escape’ and insisting others to go on that roller coaster ride for free which reduces life by 11 minutes in a single ride). ScienceDaily’s source for that news is American College of Cardiology.

So ban on public smoking reduces heart attacks is a fact not some blogger’s hunch. This needs to be taken seriously by ‘smokriminals’ (short for smoker criminal). The purpose for this thesis is not convince people or authorities through scientific data because there is plenty of that available from every credible/academic ‘.com’. Public smoking is a crime, and if a logical ground is established for that ‘fact’, it would have a better impact on everyone concerned. A logical nugget in favor of the thesis statement; innocent bystanders, the nonsmokers never asked for that ‘free candy’, public-smokers need not to give the free samples.

The logic is that every (almost every) smoker agrees that smoking has harmful effect on the body, they know it for a fact. And no matter how hardcore a smoker, he would never smoke near his own infant. ‘Your freedom ends where your nose ends’, and smoke from a cigarette extends to the nose of