Smoking or non-smoking section? These questions use to be common among public places, but is now rarely spoken. Many people have different views about smoking in public places. Smokers feel it is their right to smoke where and when they want. On the other hand non-smokers feel smokers violate their rights and endanger non-smokers lives. Smoking causes heart disease, lung cancer and other serious illnesses. Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. A substantial number of lung cancers that occur in non-smokers are attributed to involuntary smoking. While some people feel that smoking in public places should remain since it is a smokers right, smoking in public places should be banned because second-hand smoke will endanger non-smokers health and it pollutes the environment.
             Smokers feel they have had the right to smoke in public places for so long that it should not be taken away. Businesses and restaurants should be allowed to set their own smoking rules, based on demand of the customers. Certain public places, such as bars or clubs, must carefully consider the loss of business if they do not allow smokers the right to smoke. The work environment is another problem for smokers, because they have to go outside to have a cigarette, even though smokers used to be able to smoke inside.
             Smoking in public places is a danger to non-smokers health for the reason of second-hand smoke. Second-hand smoke is the third major cause of lung cancer in the United States. The simple separation of smokers within the same air space may reduce, but does not eliminate exposure to passive smoke. Fifty-three thousand non-smokers a year die innocently due to the hazards of second-hand smoke. Although designated areas are set aside for smokers this does not really protect a non-smoker. The heating and air conditions do not filter out carcinogens well enough, and the smoke drifts onto non-designated areas in
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