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that there’s a good and a bad side to smoking, but as research emerges it’s becoming clear that there’s more negative side effects than positive; one way to help eliminate some of these brutal health effects would be to increase tobacco bans. Increasing tobacco bans would help reduce secondhand smoke, encourage people…

Ban the Bullhook, written by Huffington Post is an article spreading awareness on an important protection measure for elephants. Recently the California Senate has had a tremendous amount of feedback regarding this issue that pertains to elephants currently being held in captive. The bullhook is used frequently to inflict pain on elephants in attempts to control them using nothing but fear. The bullhook, also referred to as the “guide” that looks like a long thin pole with a point out of the top…

pursue in their lives, so why limit what they should can be exposed to, as in real life you encounter many diverse viewpoints in topics. In Marilyn Maxwell and Marlene Berman's essay To Ban or Not to Ban: Confronting the Issue of Censorship in the English Class they discuss why it is illogical to censor and/or outright ban books due to their contents. So they offered up an English class lesson plan in which the students of the class over the course of three weeks read a banned book, discuss the…

to fight to stop the addiction, but if it causes deaths it is better off banned. A lot of people disagree with it being banned, but for the sake of everybody that is around a smoker it should. In the article, “The Real Reason behind Public Smoking Bans” by Sarah Clune she mentions,…

Affairs shows bans at pharmacies in Boston and San Francisco led to 13% fewer purchasers” (O’Donnell and Ungar). This smoking ban in pharmacies had a significant impact, especially since these pharmacies were not big chains. “Smokers didn’t just switch where they bought cigarettes…some just stopped buying them all together” (O’Donnell and Ungar). Not all smokers in Boston and San Francisco quit completely, but any small amount of them that did quit is great. Just recently, CVS has begun its ban…

their smoking policy to tenants and buyers. Affordable housing envisions the added benefits of children and adults living smoke-free. A non-smoking multi- housing unit helps the landlords and property owners, tenants, and community. The no smoking ban allows residents, employees, and visitors nonhazardous clean air. Again, second-hand smoke quickly seeps through cracks, crevices plumbing, and heating. Housing units that smell of smoke are difficult to rent and sell adding cost and loss of…

Secondhand Smoking Can Harm Your Loved Ones You had a very long day in anatomy class and it is finally over. While on your way out to your car, someone is smoking just outside of the entrance and the puff of smoke they just exhaled is now in your line of path. The wind is blowing very hard that day mainly back in your face. Before you know it, the wind takes your breath away. As you are gasping in your attempt to catch your breath you end up inhaling the secondhand smoke from the person…

Every year 35,000 Americans die from coronary heart disease another 3,000 die from lung cancer. All of these deaths have one cause. Secondhand smoke. Everyone has the right to breathe clean air. Each year 88 million nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke according to the CDC. Children shouldn’t have to go out in public and breathe in nicotine filled air just because smokers can’t go without their fix. Smoking shouldn’t be permitted in public areas. During the eighteenth century cigarettes…

While I am certain smoking should be prohibited in community or public places. Several people think smoking shouldn’t be barred in public locations because it’s an uncontrolled country and we have the freedom to make our own selections. Smoking any type of tobacco product is dangerous to the well-being of countless, not just the smoker, but individuals near the smoker. Prohibiting smoking in open places would decrease the amount of people that smoke each year and inspire individuals to smoke not…

If smokers are having to leave the safety of the campus to smoke they are put at a higher risk to be assaulted, raped, or robbed. Most smokers who live in dorms are going to leave their room for a smoke before going to bed. Putting a student on the street in a rough neighborhood late at night, sets themselves up to be a victim of a crime. A student should not have to choose between their right to smoke and their safety. Banning smoking on a college campus is asking them to do this. Safety…