smoking should be made illegal and not just discouraged

Thank you for your reply and sorry for my late response. I didn"t forfeit the round, I"m having exams this month so I can"t open any electronic devices this month except for weekends. Oh and I"m not going to quote everything you said. other wise, I won"t have enough space to post my arguments. 1)"it"s their right to smoke". Answer= What right does they have for spreading diseases everywhere?. 2) football is totally different from smoking. As I said, people smoke out of their own risk and anyone do not have the right to take away what is rightfully theirs IF it doesn"t bothers/affect them at all. Meaning, they have the right to take away what is rightfully theirs if it does bothers/affect them. Now, does the players in football injure/affect the audience/spectators/anyone nearby? No. the only one getting hurt is the players that too are not some major accidents that may lead to death and is not as frequent as the ones caused by cigarrete. It encourages sport, entertaining and at the same time is a quick get rich scheme. If people want to play boxing, hockey, you name it, fine. As long as they DO NOT take away other people"s life along with it. If people want to smoke, fine. As long as they DO NOT affect the others in anyway. Now, can the smokers prevent this from happening? Even if they really, really want to, they can"t. they are constantly harming people every time they smoke. 3) "Just because you, or i don't want it to continue """.. Answer= can those consuming illegal drugs stop the government from banning it just because they don"t want it to happen? Of course not. we can stop it but not by force, but legally. 4)" As i said, if they disturb anyone with the smoke""" Answers= scroll up to round one and look at point number 4 5) "Yes, it's their fault they sat next to a smoker """.. Answer= 1. I"m not obliged to walk out just because some jerk is bothering me with their smoke. I may have a business in the bar and why would I cancel the business just because one person is smoking. 2.yes, I"ll definitely ask the butcher to pay my hospital fees, any possible damage he may cause to me in the future and to give me a full refund on the meat that I bought from him. This is exactly why food inspections are there and if some worms are found, the restaurant will be closed immediately by the authorities. And if victims are there, they have the right to sue the restaurant for giving them worms. such cases were there in the past and it finally resulted with the butcher losing and their restaurants closed. 3. it is my choice to get the meat from the butcher but do I have any idea whether or not it"s filled with worms? no. let me ask you a question. Say you"ve just bought a brand new kitchen set, big Tv, etc" that summed up to $100,000. And let"s just say that it turns out that everything that you"ve just bought doesn"t work at all. The tv and the oven was nothing more but a toy. Do you or do you not have the right to sue them for selling you toys at the price of $100, 000? Will you let them take away your money in exchange for those junks? 6) "You make it sound like it's a super deadly disease """ Answer= 1. Yes it IS a super deadly disease and it IS bad. Our parents keep on telling us to stay away from smokers since we"re at the age of 6 but still some of them smoke and why? Because of their friends. 2.about football so you can just scroll up and see. Also, by watching football, children get inspired and they actually want to play football, it"s good thing. They now have a dream of being an amazing football player that can get tons of big money in one play instead of not having a dream at all. The highest paying athletic team in the world is FC Barcelona and has an average salary of $8,680,569 a year, with each player earning about $166,934 a WEEK! 3)Oh yes, you"re right. It"s not thousands but to be more precise, millions. I"ll give you a piece of article from the world health organization about the number of deaths caused by heart diseases (one of the consequences of inhaling smoke) to support my previous statement and to tell you that the number of death caused by Tabaco, which is the main ingredient in cigarette, Is way more than the number of death caused by alcohol. The top 10 causes of death ________________________________________ SMOKING A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH HEALTH AUTHORITY WARNING TOBACCO " 19,019 ALCOHOL " 2831 MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS " 1,731 ILLEGAL DRUGS " 863 MURDERS " 203 Smoking causes more deaths than murder, illegal drugs, motor vehicle accidents, and alcohol combined. Smokers not only live a shorter lives, they also live years with disabling health problems. You CAN quit smoking. Major causes of death Q: How many people die every year? In 2011, an estimated 55 million people died worldwide. Q: What kills more people: infectious diseases or noncommunicable diseases? Noncommunicable diseases were responsible for two-thirds of all deaths globally in 2011, up from 60% in 2000. The four main NCDs are cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic lung diseases. Communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutrition conditions collectively were responsible for a quarter of global deaths, and injuries caused 9% of all deaths. Q: Are cardiovascular diseases the number one cause of death throughout the world? Yes, cardiovascular diseases killed nearly 17 million people in 2011, that is 3 in every 10 deaths. Of these, 7 million people died of ischaemic heart disease and 6.2 million from stroke. Q: WHO(World Health Organization) often says that smoking is a top cause of death. Where does tobacco use affect these causes of death? Tobacco use is a major cause of many of the world"s top killer diseases " including cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive lung disease and lung cancer. In total, tobacco use is responsible for the death of about 1 in 10 adults worldwide. Smoking is often the hidden cause of the disease recorded as responsible for death. 7) "Recycling is not resource-conserving"" Answer= you know, you got a point. I got the word wrong because I didn"t do the research. It was supposed to be reuse and reduce. I thought all three are the same. I have nothing to say about this. 8) "I would like you to explain "". Answer= gladly. From where are cigarettes produced/made? Factories. Do factories produce smoke, waste, toxic and harmful substances? Yes. Where will they dump this to? The rivers, seas, lakes and the air of course! Is this harmful for the environment? Very .Does smoke increases the rate of the destruction of ozone layer? According to science and geography, yes. What are effects of the destruction of ozone layer? Reductions in stratospheric ozone levels will lead to higher levels of UVB reaching the Earth's surface. The sun's output of UVB does not change; rather, less ozone means less protection, and hence more UVB reaches the Earth. Studies have shown that in the Antarctic, the amount of UVB measured at the surface can double during the annual ozone hole. Another study confirmed the relationship between reduced ozone and increased UVB levels in Canada during the past several years. Effects on Human Health Laboratory and epidemiological studies demonstrate that UVB causes nonmelanoma skin cancer and plays a major role in malignant melanoma development. In addition, UVB has been linked to cataracts -- a clouding of the eye"s lens. All sunlight contains some UVB, even with normal stratospheric ozone levels. hey, i'm going to post the rest of my arguments as a comment. i do not have enough space to post all of them. so, go to comment and read it.