Some people believe that the use of mobile phones in public is as annoying as smoking and should be banned. Do you agree or disagree?

As far as I am concerned a mobile phone is an inevitable part of our life. Nowadays it is difficult to imagine somebody without it. From my point of view, there are
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people smoking on the streets than using
phones
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cases that people do not communicate with each other, they just surf on the Internet. On the
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, I fully support the idea of banning mobile
phones
in public.
Firstly
, it impacts our communication skills. It's easier to look at the screen of the phone without trying to find the topic for discussion.
Secondly
, it irritates people when they speak to the "walls". Let's imagine the situation. You are trying to tell something important to your friends and they are not listening to you. It makes you nervous.
Furthermore
, a lot of unpredictable situations happen when you are not in the real world.
For example
, when you cross the road, you can not hear the noise of cars, trains that can hurt you. Your concentration is weak, so it can
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damage
your life.
On the other hand
, we can't stop
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technological progress. We can not imagine our today's routine without electronic devices.
Moreover
, we use our
phones
in diverse spheres of our life
such
as: to make an order in a cafe ( a paper menu is being changed on the online one), or to show your driver
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licence
license
licences
( we don't need to have a plastic card today while driving, it is
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online
). To sum up, our world is changing, our habits are changing too.Smoking is bad for our health as much as keeping the
phones
in our hands the whole day.
However
, we can not
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mobile
phones
in public today. Our aim is to put away
phones
when we do not really need them.
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