smoking should be banned

For your first point, you stated that cigarette butts account for millions of pieces of litter annually. Although this is true why won"t the government or city council just place more rubbish bins in areas where many people are (like in the city) so that cigarette but litter would be reduced. For your second point or main point you stated that when these such people see some person being cool, they start thinking wow but as I said for my first argument it is there choice to smoke so let them do what they want. My first point is going to be about economy followed by my second point for round 2 which is going to be about health First point(economy) Taxes, we all hate taxes but did you know that there are some good things about taxes? Taxes make things more expensive but where do these taxes go to? The government. The government can create all sorts of things to save lives everyday all because of money that makes things more expensive. Cigarettes have a lot of taxes and although this is bad for the people who are addicted to smoking, the taxes in smoking could save their lives one day. You stated that in 1964 2.5 million people died because of smoking but from that day on taxes have increased so this would have prevented them from dying. What I am trying to say is taxes that go to the government can also go to health care which can save many people from dying because of smoking. 2nd point(health) I researched and found out amazing facts about the good side of smoking on health. Here are a couple of health benefits on smoking: smoking worsens your health. But for some people who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), smoking seems to relieve their worst symptoms. Advertisement IBD refers to a handful of chronic gut diseases. Crohn"s disease and ulcerative colitis, the two most-common forms of IBD, both result when a person"s immune system mistakenly attacks that person"s own gut. But while smoking cigarettes has exacerbates Crohn"s disease, it seems to alleviate ulcerative colitis. At a recent conference on IBD in San Francisco, IBD expert Stephen Hanauer speculated that everything from our diets to tylenol to colder climates might be to blame for the recent rise in IBD diagnoses, especially in developed countries. But cigarette smoking, which is largely a 20th Century phenomenon, doesn"t gel with theories about IBD being a consequence of modern lifestyles, because it can actually ward off ulcerative colitis. Hanauer is one of many IBD doctors who has noticed over the years that his Crohn"s patients are often smokers, while his ulcerative colitis patients are often ex-smokers. Cigarette smokers suffer from worse bouts, or "flares," of Crohn"s disease than non-smokers, so doctors are happy to encourage Crohn"s disease patients to quit smoking. But when former smokers with ulcerative colitis relapse into their tobacco addictions, they are often rewarded with relief from their symptoms.What gives? Advertisement At the conference, Hanauer was careful to avoid stating outright that smoking could cure ulcerative colitis, but he couldn"t deny that something in cigarette smoke was benefitting some of his patients. A handful of small studies has shown that nicotine might be a useful therapy for ulcerative colitis, though it remains unclear how it helps. Also puzzling: Nicotine therapy seems to alleviate one type of Crohn"s disease (in an unpublished study of a dozen patients), while smoking itself exacerbates Crohn"s disease. This observation would suggest that non-nicotine substances in cigarette smoke, of which there are many, may stoke and/or soothe the symptoms of Crohn"s and ulcerative colitis, respectively. I also heard that cigarettes make you lose wait so then there would be less obesity.