“Should smoking in public places be banned”? Give your views.

In the present era, smoking has become a trend, especially among the younger generation. Smoking not only affects the

smoker but

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smoker, but

also

those around him. It is being claimed that smoking should be banned in public places and I very strongly agree to it. Smoking should be banned publicly to prevent the negative effects of it not only on humans but on nature itself. To being with, smoking is much more harmful to the passive

smoker

than the

smoker

himself. If a person

is smoking

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smokes

in a populated place, he emits

second

-hand

smoke

which others can easily inhale even if they do not want to.

This

second

-hand

smoke

very badly affects the respiratory system of those in the surroundings of the

smoker

especially women and young children. Many scientific studies have shown that passive smoking puts a person at twenty percent more risk than a

smoker

.

Furthermore

, cigarette contains

nicotine which

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nicotine, which

is cancerous and causes other health issues like heart attack and asthma and these are freely being spread to those who are non-smokers in a public place.

Thus

, there is an urgent need of banning smoking in all public places.

In addition

, smoking

also

aggravates one of the major issues being faced today across the globe

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.e., pollution. The

smoke

is an addition to the

smoke

caused by vehicles, factories which

further

causes significant damage to the environment by depleting the ozone layer responsible for protecting us from the sun’s harmful UV rays. The other day, I was reading an article on

effects

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the effects

of smoking on

environment

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the environment

in a magazine called the ‘Environmentalist’. It mainly focused on how smoking releases toxic air pollutants into the atmosphere. The cigarette buds

also

cause soil and water pollution as after being thrown they get mixed with the soil and their chemicals seep into the soil making it unfit for use. To sum up, smoking all in all has proved to be dangerous both for mankind and nature. People take it up by getting habituated or just to show

off but

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off, but

what they do not realise is that it has very negative impacts in

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the long

term. The

first

step we could make is to stop smoking in public.