Some countries today have passed laws against smoking tobacco in public buildings such as offices and restaurants. Other countries have no intention of doing this.
Consider the possible arguments on both sides of this debate, and reach your own conclusion on which side you favour.
Due to a great deal of research, everybody knows the consequences of smoking. However, legislating to restrict tobacco use in public places continues to be a controversial topic in today's world. There are valid arguments on both sides, which will be discussed now.
On the one hand, those who support smoking bans refer to the health risks of second-hand smoke. This is because passive exposure, whether low levels or high levels, to tobacco smoke can be harmful to the heart of non-smokers. For example, recently published research conducted in the United States has shown a 20% increase in coronary diseases and cardiovascular death in people who are exposed to tobacco smoke. Furthermore, proponents of smoke-free laws are able to cite evidence from countries, including Spain and Swiss, where anti-smoking law leads to a 5% reduction in the prevalence of smoking which in turn reduces healthcare costs. Therefore, supporters believe that the more restrictive the law, the greater its impact.
By contrast, opponents of smoke-free laws highlight its negative impact on business, particularly restaurants, bars, and cafes. This is because smokers are more likely to avoid going to such areas and this leads business owners to experience a considerable reduction of their customers as well as profits. Moreover, those who oppose anti-smoking law claim that it can be a violation in one's personal liberty, since individuals have autonomy to decide on what kind of lifestyle they will have and then legislating such laws can be against a personal choice.
To conclude, I would tend to side with the supporters of smoke-free laws. It seems to be unreasonable to force non-smokers to exposure to tobacco smoke of smokers under the pretext of believing in freedom and reduced income. It would be more logical to designating smoking and non-smoking areas at each public place such as restaurants and bars. By doing so, both groups of society members can be done justice.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, well, for example, kind of, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1666.0 1615.20841683 103% => OK
No of words: 318.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23899371069 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94791655529 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.616352201258 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 519.3 506.74238477 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.9664979152 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.066666667 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.46666666667 7.06120827912 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202739078562 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0627934794303 0.084324248473 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0298902948973 0.0667982634062 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119487821205 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360742674291 0.056905535591 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.