Do we really need to ban smoking in

public?

Group 2 : Kim daeho Kim seung min Kendal Asia(Joanna Garkobski) Lee ji ye

Contents

1. Background information(3 slides)

2. Discussion (11 slides)

3. Group Conclusion (1 slides)

Worldwide Leap to Staying ALIVE

• Cuba: On Feb. 7, 2005 smoking was banned in public places, except for designated smoking areas in restaurants. It also banned sales of cigarettes to children under 16 and at stores within 100 metres of a school.

• Italy: introduced legislation on Jan. 10, 2005, to ban smoking in public places. Restaurant and bar owners are upset that they will be required to report their customers if they break the law.

• Bhutan: The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan in December 2004 became the first country in the world to ban all tobacco sales and smoking in public.

• Ireland: In March 2004, Ireland becomes the first country to institute a total ban on smoking in all workplaces, including the country's more than 10,000 pubs.

• USA: On March 1, 2003, a law in New York City goes into effect that bans smoking in bars and restaurants.

• Israel: In March 2001, Israel bans smoking in all public places including hospitals, shopping malls and restaurants.

• Egypt: In April 2001, Egypt enacts a ban on cigarette advertising on state-run television.

• Asia: Eight Asian countries - Indonesia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma,, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka - agree to support a proposal to totally ban cigarette advertising.

Killer Facts

• There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, and if current trends continue, that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025.

• Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis.

• There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole.

• Among U.S. smokers, 90 percent of benzene exposures come from cigarettes.• Hydrogen cyanide, one of the toxic byproducts present in cigarette smoke, was used

as a genocidal chemical agent during World War II.• Secondhand smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing chemical compounds.• Kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of 3,000 a day in the U.S., and

80,000 to 100,000 a day worldwide.• Approximately one quarter of the youth alive in the Western Pacific Region (East Asia

and the Pacific) today will die from tobacco use.• Half of all long-term smokers will die a tobacco-related death.• Every eight seconds, a human life is lost to tobacco use somewhere in the world. That

translates to approximately 5 million deaths annually.• Tobacco use is expected to claim one billion lives this century unless serious anti-

smoking efforts are made on a global level.

Dying Environment Continued

Litter The most littered item worldwide is cigarette butts along with

packaging and other realted waste. An estimated 4.5 trillion butts are littered annually.    Along with the smoke inhaled by the smoker, 90% of the smoke from a cigarette is released into the air creating side stream, or second hand, smoke.  The problem of air pollution is world wide.  Burning tobacco is the main source of indoor air pollution in the developed world.  In the developing world, the curing of tobacco often includes burning wood which directly contributes to global warming.

Deforestation Along with millions of hectares of trees being cut down for land, trees

are destroyed to process tobacco leaves and to produce paper to wrap the cigarettes and packaging.  On average, a tree is cut down for every 300 cigarettes.

Pesticide use To grow a tobacco plant successfully, a large amount of pesticides,

fertilizers, and herbicides must be used.  When the pesticides leak into the soil, the poisons are found in the waterways, ecological systems, crops, and livestock in the surrounding community.  7) Fire

Fires It is estimated that between ¼ and 1/3 of fires around the world are

caused by careless smoking.

2. Discussion

Team 1 : Kendal, Asia, Lee ji ye

Smoking in public should be banned

Team 2: Kim dae ho, Kim seung min

It’s Individual rights and a way of life.

Team 2 Dae Ho Kim : I'm going to probably be the only person here against a ban on public smoking, but I would like to make a point. I am not by any means advocating smoking, but I am simply stating that banning smoking may not actually be the most effective path to a smoking-free world.

Team 1 Lee ji ye :I think smoking in public place should be banned.Every person has a right to live in a clean and comfortable environment.It is hard to breathe on the street where some smokers are walking nearby.Smokers may argue that smoking when they want to.

Air Pollution The air pollution emitted

by cigarettes is 10 times greater than diesel car exhaust, a small Italian study finds.

Each year in Canada, sidestream smoke from burning cigarettes deposits tonnes of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals into the air.

The 52 billion cigarettes smoked eachyear deliver almost 5000 tonnes of pollutants into the atmosphere.

Team 1 Kendal:Look at this kinds of ingredients in smoke. Dae ho, Seung min,Do you still keep smoking in public?

Team 2 Kim seung min :The purpose of banning smoking for

protecting people's health is rightfully valid.

But I doubt that this is a problem we have to restrict it with a law.

We should admit the right of non-smokers and also smokers as well. We need more practical and actual alternatives instead of banning everything.

Team 2 Kim dae ho :

I agree with seungmin’s opinion.I think this really boils down to the rights of the

individual versus the rights of society. Does the individual get to have control over if

they can smoke, or can we ban it for the good of society?

Modern society seems to be leaning towards the rights of the individual; that is, we are allowing smokers to smoke.

Also, would banning smoking in public places really be a solution?

Team 1 Lee ji ye :But, freedom is always followed by

responsibility.Non-smoker's hope to live in a pleasant place

doesn't give a harm to the smokers.However, smokers does. Furthermore, it has been proved that indirect

smoking is more dangerous because in the smoke that smokers blows out,

there are a lot of dangerous materials such as nicotine, tar, are involved that the smoke which smokers inhale.

Therefore, I agree with the law banning smoker's smoking in public place.

Team 1 Kendal :

Yes, ji ye is totally right.We feel that banning smoking is essential to ensure

the health and well being of a population.

The air pollution that smoking cigarettes causes is too much for the environment and the human body to handle. In order to make our world a better place to live we must take measures in the right direction, such as banning smoking in public areas. . Neither of us are smokers and it is bothersom. Although this may not solve all the problems it is a step in the

right direction when we are surrounded by the smoke and forced to inhale the toxins.

Team 1 Asia:

When we go out to public places we always come home stinking of cigarettes, our hair and clothes smell so strong we might as well have joined in the killing act of smoking.

We think it is rude and inconsiderate for smokers to choose

to smoke around those who have chosen to not smoke for health reasons. A ban on public smoking will benefit everyone!

Team 2 Kim seung min :

In my opinion, we could do alternative ways more than before.

Such as appointing Smoking and Non-smoking section or making ventilative rooms. Factories are constantly making pollution, but we won't stop them for our convenience.

Like the preceding, it is important to find a meeting point of everybody's happiness, not for just one group.

Team 2 Kim dae ho :

Individual experience :I heard this story from one of my friends. He doesn’t

think smoking should get out of hand even though he is non-smoker.

He is allergic to cigarette smoke (and didn't find out until he was 12) and his entire family used to smoke. This has seemed to cause some asthma problems with him,

but still, personally he has no problem with a smoking and a non-smoking section as long as they are completely walled off from each other.

I want to recommend “Setting walled off section up more” to government.

Team 2 Kim dae ho :

Smoking as a way of life : If you want cleaner air not only you are going

to have to ban smoking in public but you're going to have to ban cars. You think that will go over?

High percentage of cigar price includes tax and in Korea, 45% of the total profit from selling cigar goes into educational budget in the country..

See, smoking is a way of life.

ConclusionTeam1 and Team2 made a step back each other from their opinion.

At least, we are sure that smoking in public make a bad situation and affect badly to body.

But there are still lots of complex problems of banning smoking in public right now.

So, as times goes by, there will be a mood to solve this problem such as alternative ways for smoking in public or just banning smoking in public.

Be careful for non-smokers when you smoke in public place until then!