Smoking, The right option?

The debate about smoking or not smoking has existed throughout years and years, specially during the last decades. However, In my personal opinion the answer is clear: smoking is an unhealthy and harmful habit that affects everybody, smokers and not smokers. I am aware that throughout history, cigarettes have been associated with positive aspects such as: success, glamour, sex or freedom. Perhaps, It is the reason why a lot of people used to smoking regularly. As well as, all we know that cigarettes are addictive. On the one hand, not smokers could think that we must not ban people from smoking, because it is a personal choice and an intrinsic right as individuals. Nevertheless, Who protect the health of non smokers that have decided on their own not smoke? Because we also need to breathe pure air in public places.

On the other hand, we must take into account the economic interests that we can find behind the habit of smoking. For this reason, We can understand that some governments support this action and the tobacco companies have denied throughout years that cigarettes are dangerous for our health and addictive. Finally, I would like to comment on that Spanish government wants to establish a law in order to ban people from smoking in public places such as: bars, restaurants, shops etc. But this is a very polemical issue in my country. Since there are a lot of smokers that are not agreed with this "anti-tobacco" law. Therefore, Spanish people must wait few months to know what is the definitive decision.

The next link is an interesting web side about ASH(action on smoking and health). I hope that it was useful for you, specially for smokers that want to give it up!
http://www.ash.org.uk/