Rygeforbud: analyse af tekster og personlig diskussion

Robin McKie, ”Benefits of smoking ban will be felt at once”The Observer, July 1, 2007.

A. N. Wilson, ”Is this the end of English literature?”The Daily Telegraph, August 20, 2007.

Simon Jenkins, ”Another victory for Britain’s insufferable paternalists”The Guardian, February 15, 2006.

Give an outline of the different positions on the smoking ban which are presented in the texts.

Text 1, Robin McKie:

He says; “Improvements in people's health will begin to filter through the population almost as soon as England's smoking ban takes effect today.” To argument for his allegation, he uses raw facts from studies on, how people’s life in foreign countries has improved for the better, saying; “This is the key implication of a series of studies based on research into existing tobacco bans, as highlighted in Nature last week.

In one study it was found that bar workers in Scotland and Ireland complained of fewer respiratory problems within months of the bans being introduced. And in a study of a six-month temporary smoking ban imposed in 2002 in Helena, Montana, the number of heart attacks fell by 40 per cent compared with other years.”

This is pretty strong arguments, which certainly points towards a healthier community in general, as a result of a strong and powerful smoking ban.