en nineties. This is only from smoking related illness. Tobacco is also the leading cause of fatal fires. Attempts have been made to make cigarettes more fire safe by lowering their ignition propensity. The results have been rejected, however, because the cigarettes are unsuitable in that they have to be re-lit constantly.Another major concern of anti-smokers is the fact that the Environmental protection agency has concluded that second hand smoke is linked to the development of lung cancer. This fact is frightening. Now not only are smokers polluting their bodies, and polluting the ground with their poisonous cigarette filters, but they are polluting the air. The air that everyone breathes. Surely anyone can see the logic in banning smoking from all public places. If cigarette and cigar smoke is harmful, then it should be every persons right to decide whether they want to in hale the smoke or not. Many smokers are very disrespectful. They think only of their rights as a smoker, not the rights of others. How many times have you been traveling down the road to see the person in front of you flick a lit cigarette out of the window? Lit cigarettes can cause automobile explosions. New York school commissioner Charles Hubble gave the following address:Many and many a bright lad has had his will power weakened, his moral principle sapped, his nervous system wrecked, and his whole life spoiled before he is seventeen years old by the detestable cigarette. The cigarette fiend in time becomes a liar and a thief. He will commit petty theft to feed his insatiable appetite for nicotine. He lies to his parents, his teachers, and his best friend. (Smoking by Lila Gano, page 17)Personal opinionMy personal opinion on the matter of whether tobacco should be legal or illegal, is that it should remain legal, but restricted. I do not use tobacco products of any type, however I believe that each person in our country should have the right to decide on his/h...
