In these days smoking ban is became quite hot issue because from June 1st, the law of smoking is going to be more strict to statewide. From the end of last century many states started making a law to control to smoking In America, and now many states separated smoking and nonsmoking area in public places. From June 1st, nobody can smoke in public places include restaurant, club, and pub and effecting of new law provides exemptions for tobacco shops, some hotel rooms and laboratories used for research on smoking. Many smokers and shop owners argued that it was ignored their lives or rights but I think it was very right decision for many people.
When I was arrived to Nebraska, from South Korea, I was really surprised. The first reason is that not many smokers in the UNK campus and Kearney that I expected. I thought many young people all over the world enjoys smoking just like as Korean society, but I was wrong. The second reason is that every restaurants and pubs don’t have bad smell from the smoking. When I was in Korea, I really hate going to pub because smoking smell made me almost crying.
The world is going to make strict rules of smoking after they know smoking is really bad for human and environment. They try to cut down the rate of smoking by strict rules. Following this tendency of the world, South Korea also started making rules of smoking ban in 2003. At first they started separate place to smoking and now they arguing to forbid smoking on the street. It quite big progress from the start but I don’t think it is enough. Government ban smoking in public places but that places include just working place, government building, or school. In restaurant, café, or pub still can smoking in there. They argued they following the separate rule but it just pretend to follow because in everywhere in that place people can smell of smoking. Every nonsmoker wants to escape from the smell and smoke not smoker themselves. Furthermore, some smoker’s perception of smoking ban is very low even though the rules have quite big fines. Some smokers smoking in the building in campus (they might think that smoking near the window is fine without bothering the others but it was not fine) or some smokers smoking in the subway station even it is dangerous behavior! As a nonsmoker, I really hate that situation, but life in Nebraska is like as heaven to me! Because of not enough strict smoking rules, the rate of smoker is not going down in Korea even though cigarette price and death rate by lung cancer that caused by smoking go up regularly.
Can you imagine live in the room which filled with bad smoke? To non-smokers it can be happen in allowed smoking places. The smokers don’t know how painful to stay with them. The under twenty percent of American is smoker. It means most people in American are non-smoker! Why non-smokers are stand the pain of bad air? Why non-smokers are bear to stay in dangerous of lung cancer? I recommend to Nebraska state, please keep your faith. Even smokers and shop owners claimed that they have right also, the state keep the smoking ban. Of course, every human have right to live upon their willing, but nation has duty to protect their people also. Sometime national duty has to come before private rights or happiness. In case of South Korea, the government in dilemma because cigarette sold by national own company so if make rules strict they are hit, but America is different! The state has to remember that the most important thing is people’s health. Making more strict rules about smoking and taking more tax from tobacco, and helping poor and unhealthy people just like Obama doing are the great way to make happier society. Most of all, smokers and shop owners have to realize smoking is crime! When they are smoking, they killing around people also! For their health and for many people’s health they have to quit smoking, for quit smoking we need strict smoking ban!
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