Should parents\nstop smoking? Many people say yes as cigarettes contains thousands of harmful\nchemicals that are detrimental to children. Despite its pernicious effect on\nchildren as well as on parents themselves, I don\u2019t agree that parents should be\nforced to quit smoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, parents have their\nfreedom to smoke. Everyone, including parents, have the right to smoke so it is\nnot so reasonable to force them to quit\nsmoking. It is their own choices and that we should not violate their freedom.\nIf the potential danger of smoking is the reason of the government to prohibit\nparents to smoke, then should the government ban junk food, alcohol and so on\nthat will also harm our health? Seriously it is impossible, right? It is just\ntheir freedom of choices. Instead, the government should encourage parents to\nquit smoking and educate children not to smoke rather than enforcing parents\nnot to smoke directly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, this policy is unproductive in changing\nchildren\u2019s mindsets. One of the aims of this policy is to stop children from\nfollowing their parents to smoke. However, they may still have the chance to\nsmoke because of the social trend or just because their idols smoke. Therefore,\neven if their parents quit smoking, children\nmight still smoke under other reasons. It is unable to prevent children from\nsmoking by just banning their parents to smoke that the government has\noverestimated the effectiveness of this solution. Only when they know the\nadverse and serious impacts of smoking will they quit smoking voluntarily, so\nthis solution is more effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Third, this policy is ineffective in practice.\nIf the government implements this policy, parents will probably not smoke in\npublic areas when they\u2019re carrying their children as they know that they are\nviolating the rules. Therefore, they will smoke at home where the police cannot\ncatch them. We can see that the government mismatches the problem and solution.\nThis solution is still unable to solve the real problem that they don\u2019t want\nthe young to breathe in too much second-hand smoke. Instead, advocating the bad\nimplications for smoking is more practical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In conclusion, although smoking is bad for\nhealth, it doesn\u2019t mean that we should completely forbid parents from smoking,\nas it is their freedom to do so, and the policy is unproductive. Instead, the\ngovernment should advocate the consequences of smoking which has better outcome\nand is easier to implement which does not take away people\u2019s freedom of choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Should parentstop smoking? Many people say yes as cigarettes contains thousands of harmfuchemicals that are detrimental to children. Despite its pernicious effect ochildren as well as on parents themselves, I don\u2019t agree that parents should bforced to quit smoking.<\/p>