when it comes to the issue as to whether banning smoking in public places and office buildings is a good rule, people are likely to provide various responses. As far as I am concerned, I hold the ideal that banning smoking in public places and office buildings will bring people tremendous benefit and is definitely a good rule. In this article, I will elaborate several reasons as follows.
The most pertinent reason for my view is that banning smoking will greatly improve people’s health. Unfortunately, when smokers are able to smoke in public buildings, they can make other people sick. They may work with people who are allergic to smoking, for example. In that case, non-smokers have no choice but to quit their jobs. They can only get sicker, which is unfair. Of course, banning smoking in public buildings and office buildings will please non-smokers. What’s more, it will improve the smoker’ health. They will have fewer opportunities to smoke, so they will smoke fewer cigarettes.
The second reason I would present is that banning smoking in office can also increase worker productivity. Smokers won’t interrupt their work all the time to smoke. There will also be fewer worker absences. When smokers cut down the number of cigarettes, they will get fewer smoking-related illnesses.
Finally, it is a good ideal to ban smoking in public places and office buildings because a ban can reduce conflicts between smokers and non-smokers. People who don’t smoke tend to get annoyed and jealous because smokers have an excuse to take frequent breaks. The most significant conflict, however, is over whether smokers have a right to smoke in public. As we have already seen, non-smokers feel they are not always given a choice. If smoking in public is allowed, they will be forced to breathe harmful air. This may violate their rights and non-smokers are angry with smokers because of it.
All in all, taking into account the above mentioned reasons, I maintained that banning smoking in public places and office building is a good idea. Not only it will reduce conflict and increase worker productivity, but also benefit the health of smokers and nonsmokers as well. |