ce may reduce, but does not eliminate exposure to passive smoke. InArizona five thousand and six hundred Americans died in 1989 due to passivesmoke. A recent federal Environmental protection agency reported on thedangers of second hand smoke. They found this kills fifty-three thousandnon smokers a year. By putting a smoke free policy into effect, it willsend a strong message about protecting health. Even though designated areasare set aside for smokers this does not really protect a non-smoker. Theheating and air conditions does not filter out carcinogens well enough andthe smoke drifts onto non-designated areas. Finally, if public smoking is kept legalized we will have majorproblems facing the environment. One problem is alot of people areirritated by tobacco smoke. A man named General C.Everett Knoop released areport saying that passive smoking, when a non-smokers breathe smoke in anenclosed area, it causes as many as five deaths a year. Smoking in a publicplace is an air pollutant and it can damage health in a number of ways. Thefour major health hazards fall into air, water, and noise pollution. Airpollution can lead to various forms of respiratory disease. The mainproblem of smoking in a public place is indoor air pollution. Some of theseproblems that result indoor air pollution is building ventilation that hasbeen reduced to conserve energy, with the result that ventiliation issimply inadequate. Combustion by products from smoking tobacco haveproduced substances, smoke included, that contaminate indoor air. Theproblem effecting a person who is in a contaminated enviroment may resultin coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, muscular aches, chills, headaches,fever and fatigue. To solve this we have to have extra ventilation and keepdesignated areas in the public places if there are any. Although some claim that smoking in a public place is their right andshould be kept that, smoking in public places should not be legalizedbecaus...
