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    Smoking in public places should be prohibited for several reasons. It portrays a bad example to children and teenagers who may imitate the behavior. Nearly 9 out of 10 smokers try cigarettes by age 18. Additionally, prohibiting smoking protects non-smokers from secondhand smoke, which the health department says 60% of Malaysian non-smokers are exposed to. Banning smoking promotes a healthier lifestyle for all citizens.

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    Smoking in public places should be prohibited for several reasons. It portrays a bad example to children and teenagers who may imitate the behavior. Nearly 9 out of 10 smokers try cigarettes by age 18. Additionally, prohibiting smoking protects non-smokers from secondhand smoke, which the health department says 60% of Malaysian non-smokers are exposed to. Banning smoking promotes a healthier lifestyle for all citizens.

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    Smoking in public places should be prohibited for several reasons. It portrays a bad example to children and teenagers who may imitate the behavior. Nearly 9 out of 10 smokers try cigarettes by age 18. Additionally, prohibiting smoking protects non-smokers from secondhand smoke, which the health department says 60% of Malaysian non-smokers are exposed to. Banning smoking promotes a healthier lifestyle for all citizens.

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    Smoking in public places should be prohibited

    “Can you imagine that the doctor saying to you that you have been

    diagnosed a lung cancer due to smoking but you actually did not smoke ever in your

    life ?”. Correspondingly, this is the situation that other people have been through this

    incident that might swear that the person did not smoke at all in their life but have been

    told that he or she has a lung cancer. According to the Deputy Minister of Health, Datuk

    Seri Hilmi Yahya said that The Ministry of Health views serious smoking amongst the

    people as the number of smokers aged 15 and above is now recorded at 4.7 million

    people. This problem is very worrying towards the society especially the sparks of issue

    that have been raised all over the people which are about the relevance of the government

    to prohibit smoking in public places due to concern all citizens. As a Malaysian, it is

    clearly seen that we have to aware the vitality of preserving health among the society

    which the prohibition of smoking in public places should be supported and be enacted as

    a law to all citizens to abide due to these points which are people who smoke in public

    portray a bad example, safeguards the second-hand smoker and promote healthier

    lifestyle.

    Firstly, people who smoke in public places portray a bad example. Due to

    the fact that, teenagers, as well as children, are regularly seen that as the figure that

    usually can be influenced easily. They will follow what the other people do because they

    think that action might be accepted as a morality in public and not been prevented by the

    people on the surrounding. Besides, they imitate the people around them because at first,

    they cannot differentiate this action between right or immoral. Therefore, they perceive

    the actions as the manner or way things should be. There is a quotation that said “monkey
    see monkey do”, which tells us that the people will follow the actions of other people as

    they see it in daily lives as a habit and regular practice. They follow this actions because

    they think it will uphold their life as “cool” of ways of life due to imitating the adults who

    smoke in public places. The teenagers think that smoking will make them be an adult and

    mature compared to other teenagers that not commit this actions. According to the report

    from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that nearly 9 out of

    10 cigarette smokers first tried smoking by age 18, and 99% first tried smoking by age 26.

    Thus, the rationale of the prohibition of smoking in public places must be accepted

    because the teenagers can easily portray other people which give as a bad example in life.

    Next, if smoking is prohibited in public places it safeguards the life of the other

    people which also being forced to inhale the smoke from the primary smoker which in

    simply terms called as second-hand smoker or passive smoker. Second-hand smoke

    harms children, teenagers and adults, and the only way to protect second-hand smoker or

    non smokers is to eliminate smoking and prohibit it in public places. According to the

    Public Healthcare Physician from Health Department of Selangor, Dr. Norli Binti Abdul

    Jabbar stated that 60% of the non-smokers of Malaysia mostly children and women are

    still exposed to the dangers of cigarette smoke as passive smokers.

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