smoking argument

At the end of the 15th century the tobacco was discovered. People thought that smoking was a good thing and a whole new smoking culture started , but then scientists discovered that smoking causes lung cancer and that made the governments start to put some restrictions on the smoking and they forced the companies to issue a health warning.

There are many arguments going on about the personal privacy and the freedom; they say that it is their lives and it is a personal right if they want to smoke in private because it is their money and their own health. Another argument is about the smoking and that it helps the smokers to get relaxed and that it is useful if the smokers smoke a certain amount.

In my opinion non-smokers have their rights as well because if they smoked in public the others who do not smoke will get affected also because of the passive smoking and that causes some health problems for them and this thing infringes on the non-smokers’ rights. The other argument is about the relaxing effect of smoking and I fully disagree with them because the effect is short term but in the long term they will suffer heart and lung problems which makes their lives too sad and tragic.

The smokers have their own reasons and they, for sure, have rights but in my opinion the freedom to smoke is not an individual right because it is a slow suicide and because the tax payers in any society have to pay the treatment price if he gets sick.