1006_Group_P4

Position Paper – Part Four

Name: Leo Bartyzel HB1006

Instructions: Please use this form as an organizer for writing your portion of your group position paper. You will be writing the conclusion to the paper. You should clearly and thoroughly summarize your groups problem and your solution. Be persuasive and convincing in your conclusion why you believe that you have identified the best solution to your problem. Be sure to follow the MLA citation format that you used when completing your JRP. You will also complete the Annotated Bibliography – gather all sources from your issue group members and compile into one annotated bibliography

VII. Conclusion: Be sure to restate the problem and why you think your solution is the best possible course of action.

The problem in society today is smoking. Smoking in restaurants and the workplace is ruining the health of people not only smoking, but inhaling second-hand smoke. Restaurants need more restrictions to keep smoking away from people, which includes kids, who do not wish to be negatively affected by the smoke. Also, completely banning smoking in the workplace would be the correct move because it creates unfair working conditions for employees who do not smoke. Smokers have the right to smoke as well, but should not be allowed to do it wherever they please. Completely getting rid of workplace smoking would benefit all the employees by protecting the health of those who have chosen to not smoke. Overall making a safe work environment for all those employed. Restaurants being required to meet certain restrictions would keep harmful chemicals out of the air in restaurants and out of the lungs of non-smokers. It would keep people healthy in places where smokers and non-smokers both go.

VIII. Annotated Bibliography: Collect all the sources from your fellow issue group members and compile one ANNOTATED Bibliography.

Annotated Bibiliography

Bartyzel, Piotr. Interviewed by Leo P. Bartyzel. February 21, 2011. In this interview, Piotr Bartyzel felt that non-smokers did not receive fair work conditions because non-smokers seemed to get too many breaks and created a poor work condition for non-smokers. He also believed that non-smokers don't wish to smell or be affected by smokers bad habits so they shouldn't be allowed to smoke in restaurants there should be a separate area for smokers to go and smoke.

Brogan, Pamela. "Smoking Bans Become More Popular to Curb Effects of Secondhand Smoke." Gannett News Service. Dec. 28 2005: n.p. SIRS Researcher. Web. 18 Feb 2011. This article displays places in the U.S. where a smoking ban was to take affect. It stated different buisnesses in which smoking became prohibited and different stats on the affects of smoking on the human body. It also contained people's opinions about the change and most were for the smoking ban.

Cather, Janet. Personal interview. 19 Feb. 2011. In this interview, Janet Cather talked about her experience with a law that banned smoking and she believed it was the right move. She said she even knew people who were influenced to stop smoking by the ban. Overall banning smoking would be good because it would change people's bad habit.

Dusenberry, Mary Branham. "Butts Out." State News Vol. 50, No. 7. Aug. 2007: 16-19. SIRS Researcher. Web. 18 Feb 2011. This article provided information such as smoking inside of a vehicle with children in it is considered child abuse because the child has no say in how their body is affected. It helped with fighting smoking because if children are affected negatively then

Fosco, Lorry. Personal Interview. 20 Feb. 2011. In this interview, Lorry Fosco believed that a workplace ban on smoking is a great thing because people who smoke don't smoke don't have to go to smoking restaurants, but they do have to go to work so they shouldn't have to deal with smoke in the air.

Nichol, Ken. Interviewed by Meghan Nichol. February 21, 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">In this interview, Ken Nichol stated that he believed in the banning of smoking in restaurants and restaurants, but brought up the argument that not only non-smokers have rights. Smokers have the right to smoke when and where they please and restrictions go against that right.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">"Secondhand Smoke Facts." Tobacco Use Cessation Program. U of Minnesota Division of Periodontology, 2003. Web. 15 Feb. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">This article provided many statistics about second-hand smoke and the affect it has on non-smokers. It provided the chemicals expelled by smoke and how they can cause cancer in all people. Smoking also goes into the air and is horrible for everyone. It gave many frightening statistics which should sway the opinion of people.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">"Smoking." Current Issues: Macmillian Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 16 Feb. 2011. From this article we took many small frightening statistics to scare our reader a bit. We took numbers such as number of deaths in the U.S. caused by smoking and how many people are diagnosed with diseases linked to smoking each year.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">"Smoking solutions." St. Petersburg Times [St. Petersburg, FL] 11 Feb. 2003: 8A. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 17 Feb. 2011. This article contained information about how a smoking ban could be put into effect. It had happened in Florida, but it was said that the ban would have to be reasonable or it would not work. It was all about how Florida made the change and became a better healthier place to live.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Unknown. "Nation Must Do More to Keep Kids Out of Smoking Pipeline." USA TODAY. 28 Dec 2010: A.6. SIRS Researcher. Web. 15 Feb 2011. This article contains information which demonstrates how and why people smoke so much and the way they are affected by it and why they become addicted. They also describe the different chemicals which are bad for the human body. It concludes with saying that the nation is not doing what it needs to to make smoking less of a habit.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Unknown. "Passive Smoking 'Causes 1 Per Cent of All World's Deaths'." The Independent. 26 Nov 2010: 6. SIRS Researcher. Web. 15 Feb 2011. This article gave us information on many statistics on smoking and its bad habits.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: small;">Unknown. "Secondhand Smoke: Is It a Hazard?." Consumer Reports. Jan. 1995: 27-33. SIRS Researcher. Web. 18 Feb 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: small;">This article explains how the U.S. enviromental agency, told of the affect smoke has on babies and young children. It provided us with statistics and facts which prove smoking is bad and affects everyone, not just smokers.