Essay on Public Smoking Ban
United States Surgeon General Richard Carmona stated the nearly 126 million nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke (Report: Ban smoking in public places). The risk of inferior health caused by smoking in public establishments is truly intolerable. The banning of smoking in public places everywhere should be imposed because it would reduce the risk of health problems of non–smokers, it could reduce the number of smokers all together, and, therefore, reduce the amount of valuable money taxpayers spend on smoking related costs.
Smoking in public places should be banned because it could reduce the number of smokers at present and future times. First, it would discourage smoking because the ban would force smokers to choose between daily...show more content...
In an article written about how New Yorkers find the law, Cynthia Candiotti, a pub and restaurant patron, commented on how it will affect her social life, "Smoking and parties have sort of always gone together. Smoking, I'll probably quit. Going out with friends, that's a whole other matter" (Blau, Justine). This ban has proven to be extremely successful. An article from WebMD, "Smoking Ban Helps NYC Stop Smoking," states that within four years of the law being passed there was nearly a quarter million less smokers in the city alone, possibly saving nearly eighty thousand lives in the long term. These results are from only one city; one could only imagine the effect if a ban on smoking in public places was imposed across the nation. This great success is one of the reasons that smoking should be banned in public places. There are many unnecessary costs associated with smoking, of which, most would be reduced with the effects of a smoking ban. The ban of smoking in public would reduce the amount of valuable money Americans squander on smoking related costs and liabilities. First, the proposed smoking ban would help reduce the amount of money spent on healthcare.. The ban would help reduce the medical care needed for illnesses, diseases, and cancers, (etc) caused by the smoking of tobacco and inhalation of secondhand smoke. This is money could have helped the, over, 43.6 million American citizens without medical insurance.