Whether banning smoking is a good idea or not.

Thank you for responding. DEFENSE Freedom of Choice PRO counters with his argument saying that the freedom of choice of passive smokers are being violated because the smokers are smoking in public areas, again, if they’re disturbed by this, they can just leave quickly, or go to a more private area, a mall, a café, restaurant or some air-conditioned place where smoking is prohibited, they’re freedom of choice is in no way being violated here. Second-hand smokers choose to breathe the smoke, why not hold your breath for a few seconds while getting out of that smoky place. My opponent also compares smoking to workout, yes, it might not affect others since this is a shallow and ludicrous comparison, but let’s compare it to fast food, at least cigarettes have a label on its pack that warns the public on smoking can cause health problems, but when we see fast food ads, we don’t see any warnings about their effects on obesity and food poisoning {1}. Hurts Business/Economy PRO argues that a total ban must be considered since it is unhealthy and argues that shutting down tobacco companies would benefit us. Again, if we did a total ban and abolish said companies, we need to also abolish fast food, which of course, is unreasonable and unfeasible, the same goes with cigars. Also, my argument that when we abolish businesses that are linked to tobacco still stand, as I said, we would be affecting millions of people, people with jobs, people who need to earn money to provide for their family. This is bad for the economy, this may cause various protests and rallies, and if people are jobless, their children hungry, it would be a nightmare. Oh, and my opponent’s rebuttal here is more somewhat more of like a rant on the governments’ role to care about people’s health, he really doesn’t have a decent rebuttal here. Moving on, PRO also states that banning it would stop the problem since cigars will eventually vanish from Earth. My opponent obviously doesn’t know how cigars are done. Tobaccos come from anagricultural product made from the leaves of plants in the genus/herbs of what’s called Nicotiana, tobaccos are then harvested and produced in many, many ways, and then we go to cigars, which is known to be just a small roll of finely cut tobacco leaves wrapped in thin paper. {2}{3}{4} Marijuana and other drugs are illegal and banned in most countries but there are cases being reported every day, you think cigars won’t? Crime rates will surely raise, considering the US’ and some countries crime rates on drugs (which tobaccos are considered a drug). Yes, cigars can help people relax, but people have the right to relax on any method they choose, whether dangerous or not. Now, my opponent obviously hasn’t fulfilled is burden of proof yet and failed to provide decent arguments and references as to why smoking would be a good idea. Again, I’d like to remind everyone that in order to vote for the instigator, he must show that the advantages of fully banning smoking and abolishing the tobacco industry and business linked to tobacco outweigh the disadvantages. For now, please extend my previous arguments. I await PRO’s response. REFERENCES {1} http://en.wikipedia.org... {2} http://en.wikipedia.org... {3} http://en.wikipedia.org... {4} http://en.wikipedia.org...