What are some good reasons why the United States should ban smoking in public places?
I have to write an 8 page paper and smoking bans is the topic I got. I have to be on the side that says smoking bans should be enforced in all public places.
I could use some reasons why it would be good to have it. At least maybe 5 reasons. Also I need counterarguments as well.
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Counterargument has a lot more facts to it. First since most "public places" like bars are privately owned the gov should not be tampering with them. Second since America was based on the idea of individual freedoms instead of dictatorship, the gov should allow as much freedom as is feasable. Giving the establishments owner the RIGHT to decide for themselves. The whole secondhand smoke cry about being hazardous holds no water. That's FLAT obvious by all the years people have smoked and have not affected non-smokers, well besides making them turn up their nose.
------------- The Largest study on Second Hand Smoke ever done by Enstrom
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/…
“No significant associations were found for current or former exposure to environmental tobacco smoke before or after adjusting for seven confounders and before or after excluding participants with pre-existing disease. No significant associations were found during the shorter follow up periods of 1960-5, 1966-72, 1973-85, and 1973-98.”
“Enstrom has defended the accuracy of his study against what he terms ‘illegitimate criticism by those who have attempted to suppress and discredit it.’". (Wikipedia)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles…
------ Court rules that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is NOT a Class A carcinogen
William Osteen (US District Judge) ruling against the EPA
*The ruling shows by scientific definition that ETS is not a Class A carcinogen
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/980717o…
“There is evidence in the record supporting the accusation that EPA ‘cherry picked’ its data” … “EPA's excluding nearly half of the available studies directly conflicts with EPA's purported purpose for analyzing the epidemiological studies and conflicts with EPA's Risk Assessment Guidelines” (p. 72)
-------- OSHA will NOT regulate something that’s NOT hazardous
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.…
“OSHA has no regulation that addresses tobacco smoke as a whole, 29 CFR 1910.1000 Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS.”
CDC Study shows cigarette smoke is 25,000 times safer than OSHA air regulations
http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2004…
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US Senate discusses health official’s inability to represent any REAL science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCP2IY3SR…
Study about health & Smoking Bans – The National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14790
“Workplace bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases.”
http://www.cigarmony.com/downloads/smoki…
“Conclusions: Our results indicate no association between childhood exposure to ETS(environmental tobacco smoke) and lung cancer risk.”
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