Why I’m Against the Statewide Smoking Ban By: Michael Spatz Imagine you walk into a restaurant and are seated in the smoking area. Knowing that this bothers you, you choose to sit there anyway. A smoker comes in, sits down in the booth next to you and lights up. Believe it or not, this is a common situation that happens for a lot of people. What would you do? Michael Spatz claims that “a statewide smoking ban is not what the state of Kansas needs right now.” (211.) I both agree and disagree with
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Example: Since I am young and in good health and if I continue a healthy lifestyle for myself I won’t suffer health problems from smoking. Type of Fallacy: Wishful Thinking Explanation: I am only 24 years old and have not had any health problems because I smoke. I know the risks, but it does not make me think I need to quit smoking. Normally health problems from smoking effects people as they get older not at the age I
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Composition I Professor Frawley 13 August 2012 The Electronic Cigarette It is estimated that 400,000 deaths will occur this year in the United States from cigarette smoking. This gruesome statistic tells us that with illegal drugs, alcohol, motor vehicle, suicides and murders combined; cigarette smoking is still the number one contributor. In 1963, Herbert A. Gilbert was not aware of these kinds of statistics, however, he was on the brink of an invention that would revolutionize
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Demand for these products has been noticeably inelastic. “This means that even if prices are raised, consumers, or smokers for that matter, will still consume almost the same number of sticks or packs of cigarettes. This is because cigarette smoking is a form of addiction and smokers cannot easily
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SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES Have you ever been in outdoor restaurant, and there was someone bothering you by smoking while you are eating?, what is your impression?. Smoking in public places must be removed or forbidden, because, people cannot have an healthy life, it wastes of money, and it wastes time in our life. First of all, people could not have an healthy life. For example, most of the smokers have an unusual problems in their bodies causing a lot of disease. Moreover, according to the
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in 2013 (Stuttaford, 2013). Despite the newness of the product and much of if any side affect have been noted through some studies. In the ECLAT 12-month study, which is double-blind, controlled, randomized clinical study to evaluate smoking reduction, smoking abstinence and adverse events in smokers (Caponettto etal, 2013). The study demonstrated e-cigarettes hold some validity in ‘reducing number of cigarette smoked, and can lead to enduring tobacco abstinence…” E Cigarettes are operated
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Quitting Smoking Cigarette is a common item of human society. As early as several centuries BC, the Maya began to smoke the burning tobacco. Columbus discovered the new world in 1492 and found Indian people smoking tobacco. After that, tobacco has become commercial crops gradually. Cigarette was born. In the past 200 years, smoking has become an important social means. Not only adults from different industries and different class smoke, but more and more minor students also start smoking. To be
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CHAPTER III Related Literature Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have earned considerable attention recently as an alternative to smoking tobacco, other group of researchers have become fascinated about the impact on the health of users, effects, and usefulness of it compared to the natural cigarette which has surfaced proposals on whether it is better than conventional cigarettes. At the beginning of the research of Murray Laugesen about
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Why smoking is bad not only for you also for everybody else Why smoking is bad not only for you also for everybody else It is being proofproven that smoking can not only give you cancer and it kill you. Several reasons may involve why people conscious about it still decide to smoke, also it is being proofproven when you smoke not only you are hurting yourself also you are affecting those who are around you. If you smoke, your physical condition will be negatively affected, so it will be very
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Smoking is one of the habits that people don’t want to give up because of its addicted elements. A normal cigarette contains over 1000’s of chemicals which includes Tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide e.t.c. There are also other toxic elements in a cigarette which harms the people around a smoker. Different governments try to introduce new schemes every second year which sometimes affect a smoker in a positive and sometimes in a negative way. For example; putting a higher tax on cigarettes or introducing
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