Should Smoking Be Illegal

Introduction/Thesis Statement People who smoke should pull in the right to smoke if that is their desire. The send of Rights states that as an American we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For some people, smoking makes them happy and calms them down in stressful situations. As an American it should be your natural selection as to whether or not you smoke. Our forefathers based our constitution on our basic human rights. Increasingly vocal smokers-rights convocations, allied with some civil libertarians, have decried the lend of governmental nannies that refuse to treat smokers as adults. Clark, C. S. (1992, December 4).Crackdown on smoking. CQ Researcher, 2, 1049-1072. Retrieved November 3, 2010, from CQ Researcher Online,http//library. cqpress. com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1992120400. Jefferson City, Missouri just recently passed its own smoking ban, which is city wide. This means that any(prenominal) citizen that might want to smoke will have to hid e somewhere to do it. Apparently the smokers, were absent during this election. Making smoking illegal will notwithstanding have even more far reaching consequences. Small businesses, particularly restaurants, hotels and transit providers, have warned us that smoking bans will cost them the clientele that sustains their livelihoods. referable to current city ordinances in Columbia, Missouri that have banned smoking, there have been at least fifteen local businesses that have gone out(a) of business. News Tribune (2010), Smoking Ban Passes Anti- smoking groups have also been accused of feathering their own nests, spending more on salaries and fund raising than on research. It has been accused of being an industry that provides employment for an army of smoker-bashers, and for many, the opportunity to amass personal fortunes, writes Fred Phillis, a Trumbull, Conn. , public relations consultant and smokers-rights activist.There is no denying the wellness risks that are involved when someone smokes. There are over 400,000 deaths per year that have been directly linked to smoking. This should still be our choice to make, just as it is our choice about whether to watch TV or not. While there have been health issues related to second hand smoke, we cannot lose sight of the item that, they can always go somewhere else to sit. Non-smokers do not have to sit by smokers. There is much to be said about not smoking, my own grandchildren are allergic to cigarette smoke.Also the University of North Carolina researchers reported that children of smokers showed a 38 percent higher chance of ear infections Clark, C. S. (1992, December 4). Crackdown on smoking. CQ Researcher, 2, 1049-1072. Retrieved November 3, 2010, from CQ Researcher Online,http//library. cqpress. com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1992120400. It is still our choice to not smoke around our grandchildren, someone didnt tell us not to. In the classic mold of affectionate scapegoating, smokers have been stigmatized, gh ettoized and threatened with cultural annihilation. Smokers are being made to feel like social pariahs, declares John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University law professor who founded the anti-smoking group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Conclusion/Closing What we are also losing in this whole debate is science, which has become political, says Walker Merryman, a sin president of The Tobacco Institute. Those are the business people who have to try to operate when their economic life is threatened? In conclusion I have but one thought Give me a place, even if its outside. But you just cant legislate it out of my life.