Some people indulge in smoking even though there are egregious effects such as lung cancer and supplementary diseases. People who smoke don’t think about the people around them because if they did they wouldn’t smoke. Smoking can cause others around them to develop cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Smoking is permitted in certain places, but it shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere. Opponents of this claim may say that banning smoking would drive many restaurants out of business, however, it’s much more important to protect a humans' life than a business’s. Plus, when a ban was launched in Australia, only 9% of restaurants reported a drop in trade, which is not a business being driven out of business. Smoking causes more than 480,000 casualties