Should Smoking be Banned Completely?

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Ahmed Haris said:   9 years ago
Hello, readers.

Smoking cigarettes should be banned completely in my opinion. But I do not think that we would ever get rid of this. What we can do is to avoid ourselves from this norm. In almost every country manufacturing of cigarettes is done on the commercial level, governments allow companies to establish factories so that that it could gain lots of profits and impose taxes in order to fill their pockets with money. Same is the case with the companies who manufacture and sell alcoholic drinks and government pass their bills so these companies could establish the whole lot of factories. If we are to get rid of this nuisance, collective efforts are required to be made each of small and large level. Our politicians need to pass strong bills and the law should take it's due course to stop these brands in order to not establish factories and manufacture this poison. But I hope that it could happen till then individual efforts are needed to be made by us and we should prevent ourselves from smoking cigarettes. Thank you.
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Paul said:   9 years ago
Anyone who claims to get pleasure or claims that smoking is enjoyable I believe are afraid to face a future without them. This is what an addiction does it creates a dependence which we feel will make life terrible once removed and creates a false security. We all seen or experienced the anguish expressed and how hard it was to wean the bottle and security blanket away. We were born to breathe fresh air and eat and drink to survive, we were not born to inhale toxins by choice and if we had the choice, no peer pressures or stimulants or ads to entice just plain choice all over again we would not voluntarily walk into the world of coughs and cancers and COPD and throwing away looks and money to enslave ourselves to a slow death, giving up is hard but once over the giving up lets be honest there is no going back unless not fully recovered from the addiction. I was a former smoker and would never go back and would never want to go through quitting again, once quit stays quit only person or fault for going back is you.
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Ann said:   9 years ago
Hello, friends.

This is Ann,

The topic itself speaks about a filthy means of lifestyle wich we see around SMOKING.

Smoking Kills, a cigarette packet itself contains the bold letters signifying the after effects of smoking Does this really matter? still people go on their way to boost it along the whole life killing themselves.

It should be banned, that's right If we find the reason behind a smoking habitat emerging nowadays in the life of a workaholic chap its a stress reliever for him.

But it's ridiculous to come across youths who take it as a changing pace from a Boy to a Man reborn with this piece of poison.

The smoking population graph itself shows the increasing rate of smokers in between the age of 12-Adult the maximum consumers are youth which has resulted in fatal death, causing cancers to different parts of the body.

If it continues soon we will be losing the youthful crowd of India who are the next inspiring generation and ones who will lead a bright future.

SMOKING KILLS!BAN IT!
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Muhammad Aslam khan said:   10 years ago
Well others have already given their opinion mentioning some pros and cons but lastly solution matters. So heading to solution the followings are things ought to be done:

1) What I personally believe a person can't stop smoking only on instructing him pros and cons side. So uprooting this habit we have to work on ground level i.e. school children. Taking them to cancer hospital and have conversation with emotionally strong patients regarding it's effect on social life like he may advice "When your family needs you most, you are not there".

2) Incorporate "How to tackle with pressures, tensions etc". Chapter with the Human Values subject being taught in schools and give it an important part of scoring like ratio 30:100, so that the students can inculcate theory in life by regular reading for exams.

Practicing above said lines will establish a strong will to youths from not only going for cigarettes but also for ill stuffs like alcohol, drugs etc. And make themselves healthy, wealthy and wise.
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Akansha bisht said:   4 years ago
In my opinion, smoking should be banned. As we all know that It's causes diseases cancer, lungs problem due to smoke but, if we do something suddenly so Its effect will have to negative so many people not in India also in other countries who does smoke, will have trouble because they have addicted of smoking even a new generation and our youth use only for fun. So govt should take steps like 15 to 20 who is between the ages shopkeepers cannot sale cigarette those children's.

If we talk about the positive way Cigarettes do not cause cancer. Who're people doesn't smoke They also have cancer even a Born child also. They don't smoke. And cigarette substances help and improve our economic conditions insubstantial. Smoking reduces our stressed. Govt will never ban smoking they can give only instructions and directions like written on a cigarette packet. It's injurious to health so don't smoke and We have studied in class every cigarette cut your life 5 mins. So it totally depends on do or die.
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Mani Sorout said:   7 years ago
Hello friends,

According to my opinion, smoking should not be completely banned but there should be some restriction on smokers.

Friends we know that in today's time smoking is coming up like as a fashion which can be dangerous for us.

We often see that a boy has not completed 18 is smoking in a park or on a side of road. That boy does not know the side effects of smoking but he is smoking to show up and with a few times this became a habit for him and after that even he wants he cannot leave. So there should be some age restriction that a seller would not sell smoking element to a person who is below 18 and if he will do so then there should be a fine.

Another thing is that friends there are no hard rules for them who smoke in public place. If someone caught smoking on a bus or train he got free with only 100 or 500 rs. But there should be a rule of prison for that person of 1 day, 2 days or even 1 week also.

Thank you.
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Hari haran said:   7 years ago
Hello friends. According to me, smoking is not completely banned. People had awareness but they did not stop the smoking. Nowadays some people's thoughts are smoking is a fashion and style. They think it is the only thing to solve and forgot the problem they had. Some advertisement like cinema etc says smoking is injuries to health but they show the person smokes the cigarette with style. This is all the things are seen daily. So the smoking people's are increased daily. Nowadays school children also smoke because in the cinema etc. How the person smoke means they like a one person and that person what do and this person also do the same thing. Mostly today people follow the cinema what the actors do people also do the same thing. In my point, of view first, the actors take awareness to stop the smoking in acting then only stop the people's. These steps are taken I think smoking should be banned completely.

Thank you.
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Abhishek Kumar Gupta said:   9 years ago
If you look at cons and pros of smoking, there is only cons(disadvantage) , it affects our lung that targets accumulated over lungs that's makes us breathless if we run for some time or when we go upstairs, reason for cancer(very dangerous to health) and results in decreasing life span, it also makes our environment dirty when people consume it in open environment and most of the time we see that people who don't smoke even being affected because of polluted environment they became a part of passive smoking(its not good) at least it should be completely banned in open environment so that at least others would not get affected by it, taking this step will reduce the smoking by a large extent because I don't think it gonna be banned completely because its a huge source of income and is the ways to nation development economically, so somewhere smokers contributing to the nation development.
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Sreekanth said:   8 years ago
Hello friends,

In my view, there should a ban on smoking as it is harmful not only to the person consuming it but also to passive smokers (indirect smokers). The main reason behind not putting a ban is that the government gets revenue from the sale of cigarettes. Irrespective of showing in advertisements the long lasting effect of smoking, people still use it as a source of refreshment. But I think smoking cannot be completely banned as the real effort should come from public by quitting it. The government has made efforts to increase the rate of tax on tobacco, cigarettes to discourage the usage. Complete ban is not possible as levying restrictions may result in people resorting to drugs, which is again a headache for government as even students are addicts.

So in conclusion, the real effort should be from the part of public to get rigid of this cancer causing smoke.

Thank you.
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Varnit kumar said:   8 years ago
Hello everyone,

As most of my friends share their views on this topic and I appreciate them for their fantastic thought. As we all know that smoking leads to death so from my point of view, increase in rate of cigarette, tobacco etc is not a proper way. It is a cause of very harmful effect since, smoking makes people addict and if an addict person can't buy his needful things then he can do anything for getting those things.

Our country is the only country where people of so many religions lives and they all have their different will powers. If smokers decided by their will power that smoking is bad or injurious for them then they can stopped it completely.

So I requested to all the people of my country to give a right direction to such type of people who smoke or eating tobacco. I know it's very difficult but we have to do this social work for saving our nation.
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