Today many of our individual freedoms are under attack due to intrusion by government into our daily lives. I am going to convince you that the government should not ban smoking.

I will be presenting three points. My first point is that smoking is legal and has been for many years, Secondly, eduaction and eccomidation is the key. My last point is the incidence of smoking is reducing, to the extent that it will probably almost vanish in 30 years through education and publicity.

I take the point that smoking is associated with health risks. The medical evidence is hard to deny. We also agree that smoking should be discouraged. However, I intend to show what our theme states, that banning smoking is an immoral and impractical attack on individual freedom. I am therefore arguing even organizations such as Quit Australia and the AMA call...

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