Should smoking be banned? (0)

Should smoking be banned?
What is a cigarette ? It is a small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper . A cigarette contains tar; this is the harmful substance that caused 4.84 million people to die from smoking worldwide out of which 2.41 million are in developing countries like Bangladesh. Smoking is called the brown plague and not only does it harm the smoker, but also the environment and the people around us. Smoking is an expensive habit . People who smoke cigarettes can spend as much as $2,500 a year on them . Some people think that smoking is a helpful measure to reduce the stress .
Banning smoking is actually a financial loss for the government as it collects a lot of revenue through the taxes on cigarette sales . Another argument is that it is human tendency to do exactly those things which are forbidden. So, if smoking is banned in public places , adults and teens are more likely to smoke and find their own means to evade this law to continue with the habit.
Lastly, when smokers who are habitual and addicted, may experience smoking withdrawal symptoms such as irritability, anger , etc, if they cannot smoke immediately. Therefore , in this condition and under stress, they might cause a problem to others .
On the other hand , whether the smoker is using public transport or is in a restaurant , the people around him are bound to inhale the smoke coming out of his cigarette, so making them prone to all the diseases an active smoker gets. Thus, if smoking is banned, spread of these diseases can be checked.
Secondly, it will put pressure on the smoker to quit. Since , he will be unable to smoke in public places, he will learn how to live without smoking a cigarette for long hours . Moreover , when a smoker does not see anybody around him smoking or smelling of cigarette, it might reduce his urge to smoke too. Accordingly, one of its major advantages is that it forces people to quit smoking.
Looking from the economic point of view, since smoking is a major contributing factor to many diseases, it leads to absenteeism from work . Moreover, employees smoke tend to take breaks now and then to smoke, as a result lowering the number of hours they put in their work. Consequently, if employers want to increase work productivity and want to make sure that their employees remain healthy, they should ban and stop smoking in and around office premises .
All things considered , I am there somewhere in between . I don’t smoke and I don’t care if others do. It only bothers me when I am at a bus stop and a man is smoking next to me. I hate it and I can’t go anywhere, so basically, I just have to stand there and breathe in the poison .
However , it’s not my business and they all know how bad it is.