1006_Ind3_S1

Name: Leo Bartyzel

Instructions: Now that your group has decided on an issue, you must demonstrate that there is a problem. You will turn in this research sheet completed with two articles attached that you showed that there is a problem

I. There is a problem in society today. That problem is: Smoking in the workplace and throughout resturant chains has become a huge problem. There is a small number of people ruining life for the rest of society. When they just stand in front of a public place and blow smoke into the air it affects everyone. People's health is affected negatively from the deadly fumes cigarrettes produce. In studies, it has been proved that even second-hand smoke is bad for a person even if they are not directly inhaling it from the cigarrette. People have the right to a healthy and smokeless enviroment. If they don't smoke on their own then it can be assumed that they don't want other people's bad habit being part of their lives. Smoking is horrible for people's health as it is and just adding second-hand smoke makes a deadlier enviroment. The workplace is not strict enough when it comes to enforcing smokeless enviroments and resturants don't have the restrictions they need to keep people safe.

II. Facts that demonstrate that there is a problem are: (Two articles and bibliography must be attached)

This is a problem because "smoking has been linked to health problems in both smokers and non-smokers." Simply inhaling smoke is bad and according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention " smoking causes approximately 443,00 deaths each year in the United States." So people smoking and even none smokers can be affected. Non-smokers are at risk too. According to a 2006 report by the Surgeon General, secondhand smoke causes approximately 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 46,000 heart disease deaths in adult nonsmokers in the United States every year. In places that smoking has been banned, people have been very happy about it. The group Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights reported at the end of 2005 that 39 percent of U.S. citizens now live in areas that "are covered by statewide or local laws limiting smoking ." This is beneficial to the health and lives of all those who live there. Areas such as buisnesses and resturants do not have enough enforcement to keep people safe from all the harm smoking causes.

Kaufman, Stephen. "Most Americans Believe Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places." //Tobacco and Smoking//. Ed. Karen F. Balkin. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. //Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 16 Feb. 2011.

"Smoking." //Current Issues//: //Macmillian Social Science Library//. Detroit: Gale, 2010. //Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context//. Web. 16 Feb. 2011.