Social Issues

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It used to be that people who smoked seemed more mature and “cool”. However, that is not true today. In fact, smoking can affect you emotionally and psychologically, as well as physically. Many smokers quit because they begin to feel like social outcasts and either they suffer the embarrassment of smoking or withdrawal from not smoking. Smoking is a socially unacceptable dirty habit and more non-smokers are exerting their right to breathe clean air. For smokers, the social ostracism is getting progressively worse. There are many more places today that smokers used to be allowed to smoke, that now do not permit smoking. Smoking in malls has been banned. If a student is caught on school grounds with tobacco he/she could be punished for up to ten days of school suspension.

 

 

Sources:

Bringing the Smoker in From the Cold- http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/current/sct9802/20.htm

Kicking Butt- Chester County Daily Local News, June 16, 2003