Smoking

Instead of researching the vast amount of websites dedicated to stop people from smoking, I decided to see if there were any websites that said that smoking was good for you. This is because as a non-smoker I am introduced to a lot of publicity detailing how bad it is, yet I’ve always wondered, if it is as bad as they make it out to be, why do people do it? Interestingly enough there were considerably less websites dedicated to the 'health benefits' of smoking than the 'health drawbacks'. I have looked at the following page: http://asthmalungdisease.suite101.com/article.cfm/benefits_of_smoking, it is an article published by Devon Lantry, and although it is not of particular credibility of other established authors, he has some good points. He outlines three major benefits for smoking; smoking relieves stress, smoking relaxes your breathing and outside smoke breaks calm you down. In my opinion, smoking may yield certain benefits for people but you can't really afford to ignore all the bad effects smoking will have of you're health. I do agree with the smoking ban, because if people wish to smoke then they should be allowed to do so, but with consideration of other people.

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