Some businesses now say that no-one can smoke cigarettes in any of their offices some governments have banned smoking in all public places. Do you agree or disagree with this?

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There is no shortage of opinion on whether people should be allowed to smoke
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cigarettes
or not in their offices, or even in all public
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. But if I were forced to choose, I would definitely
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with businesses and
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that. It is my firm belief that smoking is bad for a number of reasons, and I will develop these ideas in the subsequent paragraphs. To start with, I want to notice that
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giving some people the ability to smoke everywhere, others, who are non-smokers, are really affected and even become passive smokers. When someone who is near to you, decides to end a cigarette,
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breath and
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inhale
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enhance
all of
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and acids. And
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specifically a reason, why
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should smoke even in offices. Drawing from the experience of a close friend of mine, being a passive smoker can really cause a lot of
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. My friend Mick has been working in the company, where almost everyone spent at least an hour per day to take a rest from work for
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negative habit, and after two years of working there, Mick had started feeling dizzy more often than usual. After having once a headache for a long time, he decided to visit a doctor and he was told, that impact on his health due to passive smoking was so huge, that he was required to
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a week in the hospital for the
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treatment. It is certainly clear to see why
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happens and how negative being near
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could be.
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bad smell of cigarettes or hookah in public
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could be really disgusting. In the country where I live, there are no restrictions
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all of these things, and sometimes those smokers can even
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your romantic evening. I remember when once I went on the date to
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luxury restaurant with one pretty girl, and as
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of cigarettes was so
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, we decided to leave the restaurant early, even though there was a beautiful sunset that day. Both of us were against smoking in
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and found that
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disgusting. So I believe, that changing laws in
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of disallowing smoking in public
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, can really prevent these awkward situations. To summarize, I want to emphasize, that I totally agree with the statement that some business and
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governments
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, and I strongly believe, that all of the reasons I mentioned above, could be really helpful for a quicker restriction of
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negative habit on the country level.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • public health
  • second-hand smoke
  • respiratory diseases
  • healthcare costs
  • productivity
  • fire hazards
  • environmental advantages
  • aesthetics
  • non-smokers
  • personal freedom
  • well-being
  • smoking bans
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