Smoking Ban

Thanks to Tejretics for this debate. I can see he is a formidable opponent with lots of skill, so it'll be a good debate. I: FrameworkI will be casting a short framework that we should help the needs of society, and care for others (harm principle). Harm Principle- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others (5)II: IntroductionSmoking is very harmful to society, it harms yourself, and it harms others. Who cares about ones liberty, you are harming someone else for your own needs. You don't really need smoking either, and yet it's killing many. In my arguments I will be showing why we should ban smoking for society. III: Secondhand ImpactThis is, I believe the *most* important impact on why we should ban smoking. I will show some data about people harmed by smoking. "Secondhand smoke causes nearly 34,000 premature deaths from heart disease each year in the United States among nonsmokers. ""Smoking during pregnancy results in more than 1,000 infant deaths annually. ""Secondhand smoke causes more than 7,300 lung cancer deaths among U. S. nonsmokers each year. ""Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers. Secondhand smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic and about 70 can cause cancer. "(. http://www.cdc.gov...)These are some of the important ones. Smoking harms childrens, and infants, but not only them, also adults. There are other sources which can prove this also (1) (2) (3). Just because of the smokers needs, we don't need to be killing others for it. We are killing lives for something useless. Why does smoking really help? Is the impact of wanting to smoke higher than the thousands of lives of others? The short answer, is NO. Smoking also hurts the smoker, but that isn't important, cause they want it, but do we need to kill others for their needs? No. We don't need to smoke if it kills others. The harm principle says basically ". .. to prevent harm from others" Smokers are harming non-smokers, therefore smoking should be banned. IV: Smoking bans will most likely reduce smoking Many researchers show that the best way to reduce smoking is to ban it in public places, etc. In all, banning smoking. Of course, most people will think that it's obvious. But it's not. There's many times where when we banned guns, there was more crime. There is lots of evidence for this. One study for evidence is that in Ireland, France and Germany, places where there are smoking-free policies, there is twice the chance that employees will stop smoking than places without smoking-free policies (4). New York made a law to ban smoking in indoor areas of workplaces, restaurants, etc. they discovered that there was an 8% reduction in hospitals then when there was smoking. As I said in my first argument, many people die, and go to the hospital because of smoking, and if there is a reduction, which the only changing factor is smoking, it is very likely which shows that banning smoking will reduce smoking. V: SavingThis will be my least important argument, but it is about saving money, and time. Let's assume you use 5$ every single day for buying smoking, and doing whatever related to it. 7 days in a week make 35$, and in a year, it will make over 1800$. In 10 years, it wll be 18250$. Suppose you use 1 hour each day for smoking. Then, it 365 days, you will use 365 hours, and in 10 years, it will be 3650 hours. This is around 60 days of your life. That is a lot; you can learn a new language with that much money and time. VI: ConclusionI have shown three main arguments. My first argument is that smoking is harmful, and kills people. My second argument is that smoking bans will reduce smoking, and my last argument is about saving. With these arguments, that smoking should be banned, I affirm. Vote for Pro. VII: Endnotes(1) (. http://www.no-smoke.org...)(2) (. http://www.webmd.com...)(3) (. http://www.lung.org...)(4) (. http://www.cdc.gov...)(5) (. https://en.wikipedia.org...)