Summary

The author of this article is talking about how smokers are being discriminated against. He believes that you

are a "potential target of violet anti-smokers and overzealous public enforcers" if you light up a cigarette in

public (Clark 21). In my opinion however, I don't believe that we are discriminating against them. The author

talks about how smokers and nonsmokers have been able to coexist for a long time, but in recent years, we

have found that smoking is really bad for your health (Clark 21). Not only is it bad for the smokers' health, but

also for everybody who's near the smoker. Studies have shown that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous

if not more dangerous than if they were actually smoking the cigarette. According to the author, many

Americans are being denied some of their freedoms due to the fact that they are smokers (Clark 21). I feel that

this is necessary to do if people smoke around other people. Society isn't doing this because they just don't

like them. Discrimination based on race, religion, and sex are all things that are discriminated against

because somebody is biased (Clark 21). Smokers are not allowed all the freedoms as nonsmokers because

they affect everybody around them. I don't believe that smokers should be harmed in anyway like the author

describes (Clark 21). There are more appropriate ways to handle a situation where a smoker refuses to abide

by the laws. I don't have a problem with people who smoke as long as they do it away from the public where

they will only be hurting themselves.

//You've got a fair summary of the article here, however by rebutting each main idea with your own ideas it gets quite confusing. You might instead separate your summary from your response. Also, some kind of introduction would be helpful too--what article are you responding to? Who is the author? Etc. Finally, you only need one in-text citation until you either change sources or pages; however, the in-text citation needs to be in the first sentence that uses summarized material.//