Public smoking

I don’t think the South African legislatures have done enough to reduce passive smoking. Passive smoking is when the smoke from actual smokers is inhaled by non-smokers. What bothers me is to see certain people in society such as taxi drivers and conductors insensitively smoke inside the taxis. They claim that since they sit close to the windows, the smoke can’t affect the passengers in the taxi, instead it goes outside. The “outside” is the public area and therefore, the smoke affects people in those areas.

Law makers should revise the law and ban people from smoking in public areas regardless of the location. To protect non-smokers in public places, who also have the right to a smoke free society, smokers should smoke in private places such as homes. People should not die because of other people’s sins. Active and passive smoking pose a great danger to human health, hence, the warning on the cigarette boxes “SMOKING IS DANGEROUS”.