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“Smoking is injurious to health” – All the cigarette packets have this printed in bold on their covers. But the fact is how many of us have noticed and thought about it.

cigarette smoking has been attributed as one of the most important source of mortality around the world. As this fact has come into limelight, most of the countries are coming up with the smoking ban in pubs, bars and restaurants. If this is not enough, smoking in workplace has been banned by most of the companies. Such strict rules may be difficult to be followed by the employees who are smokers. With this regulation over the smoking, an allocated area sheltered for smokers to smoke outdoors but still undercover came into the offering.

Outdoor ban over smoking in certain areas also is due to the litter problem of the cigarette butts and the smoke, which can be passively inhaled by the non-smokers. A convenient disposal of the cigarette butts and a safe place to smoke was necessary and thus, came the birth of smoking shelters.

Smoking shelter offer a safe area with the protection from the weather. It is a designated covered place for smokers of a company with no smoking policy. Discarded cigarette butts are an added fire risk in most of the places. This can be prevented with the shelters exclusively for smoking. It not only helps a company to keep in control of where people smoke but also keeps the office premises smoke free and free of cigarette butt mess.

Most of the smoking shelters are weatherproof, indicative of keeping the shelter conditioned for the external weather. It keeps the people who smoke in these shelters, warm, and dry. The cleanliness of the company complying with the government smoking laws can be easily followed with the help of these smoking shelters.

The smoking shelters offer fire resistance as well is designed to be waterproof. Seating arrangements are also been made as a provision in most of the shelters to keep the smokers at their pleasure. Feeling at ease and comfort ability while the staff or customers smoke is an instant solution with the smoking shelters. Air inside the shelter can be kept clean and recycled with the external environment with the help of vents present on the roof of the smoking shelters.

Nancy Dsouza
http://www.articlesbase.com/small-business-articles/use-of-smoking-shelter-89004.html

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When your neighbors are manufacturing meth, and your other neighbors are running a crack house–who cares about banning cigarette smoke? I’m far more worried about an explosion, and the heavy "character" traffic.

It’s good to keep lit cigarettes away from the meth lab.

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Does it support medical care, etc?
I could really use some links to websites explaining this, as well as links to sites with some sort of an opinion paper on what we could place this tax on instead, or about how we could eliminate it compleatly if we were to ban smoking nationwide.
I’m doing a persuasive essay for school in which I am persuading the people in my class to support a nationwide smoking ban.
Help is greatly appreciated. =)
I live in Texas…
Hope that helps.

It depends. Taxes on cigarette sales are collected by the federal and state governments and these taxes go into the governments’ general funds. They are used to pay for everything the government spends money on. In recent decades, whenever an increase to the existing taxes on tobacco has been passed, it has always passed under the argument that smoking causes greater health costs, so the "extra" tax money is supposed to be used to fund these costs, plus programs/advertising to encourage/assist quitting.

If you look at it, it is like a Catch 22. They raise taxes on tobacco to cover additional costs that tobacco causes and to try to get people to quit. But if people quit, then tax revenues from tobacco would go down. The government can’t afford to have these tax revenues disappear, so they will need to raise these taxes again to ensure that their tax revenues from tobacco doesn’t go down. In a way, you could say that the last thing the government would want would be for everyone to just quit smoking one day.

Besides, growing tobacco is a huge part of the economy for many southern states. You won’t see a general ban on smoking (or see tobacco being outlawed), because you would go up against not just the tobacco companies and their lobbyists, but the senators and congressmen from these southern states that rely heavily on tobacco as a part of their economy. You wouldn’t want to be the senator that has to go before their constituents and say that the people that voted him into office is now out of work and on unemployment and is now going to lose their homes to foreclosure because he (or she) voted to outlaw tobacco.

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Many people hate the smell of cigarettes!  It can drive some people crazy.  As most smokers know, the government has passed many laws to accommodate these sensitive types by  “banning” cigarettes from restaurants, public areas and airports. I guess you can’t blame them, but, don’t wmokers have rights too?  Now smokers can smoke where they want with the ICIG electronic cigarette.

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England started using electronic cigarettes far earlier than here in America.  Many of their most famous pubs and nightclubs (such as the popular celebrity haunt China White) have been promoting electronic cigarettes so as to allow their patrons to smoke inside without flouting the smoking ban.  Nicole Cammack took their advise and now smokes in restaurants without violating the law.  Nicole Cammack says she likes them because “they are elegant and don’t make your hands smell.” That’s a good thing, right!!!

Many of the health oriented Internet sites say that smoking cessation devices,  help people who want to stop smoking. The ICIG is not promoted as a smoking cessation device but many of our clients have successfuly used it that way. Another great thing about the ICIG electronic cigarette is that it reduces the causes of secondhand smoke for our families and workplace. We never want to intentionally harm our children so the ICIG is a great solution to keep everyone happy and our families safe. We know that the Surgeon General’s report has many statistics to show the damage that second hand smoke can cause, so feel confident that you are doing your best to help the environment clean with the premier ICIG electronic cigarettes.

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David Cragg
http://www.articlesbase.com/quit-smoking-articles/beat-the-smoking-bans-with-the-icig-electronic-cigarette-751434.html

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