The health and safety Act was put in place to help combat workplace related accidents/incidents; with the end goal being to ensure the health and safety of its employees. Using the Hierarchy of control Businesses have successfully eliminated many hazards or have downgraded the risks associated with them. SMOKING IS NOT A NECESSITY!, and by permitting smoking, employers are not ensuring the well-being of their employees; they are in-fact putting their lives at risk. Thus failing to follow a key guideline within the act “Employees must ensure the health & safety of their employees.” Take a forklift for example; A forklift has become a necessity for most businesses to move stock either around the workplace or to load up trucks.…
Smoking should be banned in the workplace inside and out. Reason being is it gives the work place a cleaner environment to work in, especially if it involves food or places with flamable liquids or gases. It will ensure that the work place is safe and clean as smoking in and outside the workplace will make the work place unclean and smell of nicotine. If smoking was not banned, it will cause fires or explosions where there is flammable liquids or gases, and will contaminate food from the smell from the nicotine and there will be complaints from people that don't like the smell of it and people will probably not dispose cigerette butts properley causing the workplace floor looking unclean and will be a slipping hazard on the floor and the ash…
Many people use smoking as a way to cope with emotional hardships. If we make smoking illegal what’s to say that some people turn to “harsher,” drugs as a means of escaping for a bit. Smoking should not be made illegal I propose that it should just be allowed in certain areas and that is only because it could be harmful to the people around them. Nonsmokers should also have the choice whether they want to breathe it or not. Work…
Banning smoking in the work place is a major plus for everyone. Being people employed at the place of work and visitors will both benefit from this, it sends a good message to visitors that this place of work is serious about a healthy and productive work environment. With the employees it benefits them from receiving the long term health effects of smoking. There are plenty of benefits to having a smoke free work environment such as, Provides a cleaner healthier work place, Encourages and helps smokers to quit or cut back, Shows a healthy image to the the public, Increase in work productivity and Reduces fire risks. It will also help employers with costs on paying their employees, where the employers will not have to pay for their employees to have a smoke break when they should be working.…
2. Proponents of a ban argue that it is necessary for the protection of non-smokers, who may become ill from second-hand smoke. However, this argument fails. Scientific evidence of harm from second-hand smoke is very flimsy. People who live with heavy smokers for many years may have a slightly higher risk of cancer, and it is true that smoky environments are unpleasant for non-smokers.…
Cigarettes are like sticks from hell, with many dangers to smokers, and to those around them. They are extremely unhealthy for a variety of different reasons. With this in mind, that is why they should be illegal. Cigarettes are habit forming, they are the cause of a huge health risk, and they are a leading cause of death in the United States.…
Smoking greatly affects people and our environment and they should be illegal. As stated above cigarettes greatly damages the life of the people that use them. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the world. If you smoke five or more cigarettes a day the chances of you getting lung cancer…
Should Cigarettes Be Outlawed? I agree that cigarettes should be outlawed. Everyone knows smoking cigarettes can cause major health problems and that being around someone who is smoking is harmful due to second-hand smoke. If the government was to ban cigarettes health care cost would go down as well as decreasing waste.…
Should Tobacco be Banned in America? Smoking is the leading cause of multiple cancers, causing over 480,000 deaths per year. So why would America allow the fact the you can buy these “cancer sticks” at any convenience store? A major controversial question that many people wonder, is why is tobacco still legal over the age of 18 if it is the leading cause of cancer?…
One of the newest trends in America is an alternative to smoking called “vaping”. Many claims have been made stating that vaping is more dangerous than smoking tradition big brand tobacco. There are also arguments that there have not been enough studies to prove that vaping is less harmful than conventional smoking methods, which is not the case however. Vaping has been around since the early 1960s and has proven to be healthier than its tobacco cousin, the cigarette. Currently the United States Government is trying to pass a law that would ban the production, distribution, and sale of many vape products.…
Piscataway high school in New Jersey Teen girl who was smoking on the school property and the Vice Principal found out she was and she got into more than she bargained for. This was a case was very interesting, when you may think it's the end they find more things held against her. These girl were under the age of smoking in the bathroom. The supreme court could not give out her full name because she was under age so she had to TLO, which is her initials. There were these two girls who were smoking in the bathroom and a teacher noticed and she reported them to the vice principal.…
Should Tobacco Be Legal or Become Illegal? We all know that tobacco causes many cancers, but I do not think we understand the power we have to ban the use of tobacco and to make people healthier. (Pronouns to include the audience) We also do not think of the other things that tobacco causes.…
With all these harmful effects dealing with smoking, one wonders how smoking has not already been banned. In sum, cigarettes need to be banned because…
Cigarettes have a lot of negative effects on smokers and nonsmokers, while they have absolutely no benefits. Cigarettes should be illegal because of the products in cigarettes, the damages they cause to the human body, the negative effects they have on pregnancy, how addictive they are, and how they affect nonsmokers. In a perfect world, no cigarettes would be amazing. However, we live in a world where cigarettes are a big part of everyone’s life. Making cigarettes illegal would be the closest thing to living in a perfect world.…
The Atmosphere around smokers causes harm and illness to nonsmokers. It’s not a healthy way to poison the atmosphere with a lit up cigarette that will make others suffer by its reflections. To keep our Atmosphere clean and not polluted, smoker must be banned during further notice. It increases the damage of global warming and diseases in…