To smoke or not to smoke.
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There are many reasons why smoking should be banned. With every lit cigarette, there are many health risks. Smoking affects not only smoker's lungs, but also those around you, who are unconsciously, passive smoking. If you are stood around smokers quite often, you are increasing your risk of getting lung cancer. A smoker inhales the smoke through a filter, but the public are inhaling the smoke, from the end of the cigarette, which does a lot of damage to the lungs. There isn't much choice for members of the public to avoid inhaling this dangerous smoke, except for non-smoking seating in restaurants, shopping centres, public transport, and other indoor public services. Shouldn't it be banned altogether? Passive smoking is harmful to the health of adults and increasingly, children, who run a higher risk of developing lung problems. Passive smoking carries a one and a half relative risk of developing lung...


