Should Smoking be Banned Completely?

Supposed future : Government bans cigarette in India. Bangladesh's economy suddenly skyrockets and so does India's black market. Vapor, e-cigarettes take over smoking for the younger generation the end.

Should we ban smoking completely?Who are we to (indirectly) force others on what not to breathe? Especially since most people who do smoke do it in a secluded area away from us, also their productivity in society isn't affected unlike many people have commented below. They have their life in their own hands not ours.

Hello,

Here majority of the people are in favor of smoke ban. But according to me there is no point in forceful banishment of smoking. Because like its said that water will make its way likewise the smokers will find one or the other way of their smoking.

Hence instead we should make efforts in making children and adults aware of the adverse results of smoking. Also we should make the smokers understand about how their addiction affects their family children and also their nearby environment.

So in conclusion I would say that instead of banning smoking completely we should more focus on how to spread awareness and make people realize about how its injurious one's health and its surrounding.

I think that it is so not right that people smoke, my dad used to smoke but then had an asthma attack and had to have a very expensive surgery and then my dad quit smoking.

Hi this is Jai,

I strongly agree that smoking injures not only the smokers life also the public who don't even know how to smoke. In my collage days I have friends who starts smoking while came out from film where the hero smoke more stylish, here my friends getting surrendered to the hero by following the smoking habits, latter it became the chronic addiction.

So I want to highlight that smoking habit originating from others only not by himself. So here the government want to intervene to total ban the smoking scene in the film rather than saturated warning logo.

Also the government should come out with strong rules to ban the selling of cigarettes in all the shops this will make smokers to change their mind sets to come out of smoking habits.

I think there is alternative choice/option of some chewing gums to smoking. People who are addicted for smoking can use these chewing gums to minimize their habit of smoking.

As most people will be in favor of banning smoking completely by considering its cons. But I don't think banning smoking can help in saving people form its bad consequences, as person habitual of smoking will find a way or another to smoke (its also visible in more or less every engineering colleges, smoking is restricted in every college but still students smoke by finding a way or another, if banning is helpful then why it had not helped us to prevent students from smoking).

So instead of banning smoking we should concentrate on spreading awareness regarding its consequences.

Moreover we always think a person who smokes is bad thing or we should not smoke, but why don't we think that why a person smokes? let me tell you because he has cigar to smoke so why don't we think to ban cigar? why don't we protest against all the shopkeepers who have cigars in their shops. If cigar won't be available so easily in public a person won't be able to smoke.

In conclusion I would say rather than thinking to ban smoke we should think to remove smoking by it root. It would be more helpful for our generation. Now whether way to remove smoking can be education, awareness or remove cigar.

Hi this is Tamil.

I agree with the points. You all are saying about banning cigarettes. But only by banning of cigarettes can't help people those who all are smoking Then they move to other bad habits so spreading awareness, counseling them.

Thank you.

Its everybody's individual right. Promoting awareness campaign is what we all must do, but we cannot force someone to stop.

Hi, this is Asish.

Ban on smoking completely can't be justified.

If we project it out right now, we can visualize that smokers will definitely get upto some other way of fulfilling their need or want, citing evidences like Gujarat Liquor Ban, encouraging Black Market.

Not banning is leading to chronic smoking, but every individual is responsible for themselves, even government having responsibility towards public, can't force and violate rights of an individual. It has become the need of masses of smokers.

In my point of view smoking should really be banned completely from society because it has harmful effect. Smoking is injurious to health, smokers by giving money they are buying lot of problem, the person smoking is waste of money.

Smokers says that-they can relieve the stress and tension the every person is having tension in life so smoking is not the solution we should face the problem of our life. Smoking is very bad habit, it causes many disease.

Government has banned Maggie because it is harmful for health but why doesn't they ban cigarettes. Smoking is harmful for people not only smoker but also who are nearby of smoker.

Smoking causes lungs cancer, TB and other health disease to human. It also cause air pollution by this pollution our society will be polluted. In order to overcome this should smoking banned completely. Thanks.