Cigarette Smoking Should Not Be Banned

If a product kills million of consumer would we keep it out in the market? If an industry is costing the federal government 955 billion dollars would we keep subsidizing it? If there is a group of the work force that could be using their skills to aid in the hundreds of other areaas that they could be helping why wouldn’t we take action already? In 1920 the United States Government decided that the consumption, production and transportation of alcohol had enough of a negative effect on the nation as a whole that they banned liquor all together. The same action should be taken with the consumption, faming, distribution and even the possession of tobacco and cigarettes. Cigarettes should be banned because they have a countless amount of health consequences, tobacco farmers cost the federal government billion to bail them out instead of reinvesting that money to aid in really any other are of farming that is struggling, and lastly because of the environmental impact and footprint that the growing of tobacco and manufacturing of cigarettes produces.

One of the largest and most problematic health issues in our society is smoking. Smoking is currently the leading cause of death in our country, due to its harmful and addicting contents, such as nicotine and tobacco. Although millions die from it each year, smoking is the single most preventable cause of death as well. Without smoking, a tremendous amount of money and lives will be saved. I think that our country should ban smoking and the production of cigarettes in order to maintain a healthier nation, help save the environment, and prevent the almost 1000 deaths that they cause in fires each year.

This year alone cigarettes will end up killing over 500,000 Americans, and many more will suffer from different types of cancer, circulatory, and respiratory system diseases, due to smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes have been known to cause these illnesses for a long time. The FDA has proven that nicotine, one of the main chemicals in cigarettes, is addictive. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though they are aware of the health dangers that come from smoking cigarettes. Researchers have also found out that when people smoke by pregnant women it causes the deaths of over 4,000 babies and 110,000 miscarriages. The only way to prevent death by cigarettes would be to ban them.

Smoking is the inhalation and exhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco. Historically, it was thought that smoking was harmless, but more modern, clinical and laboratory research proves that it is, in fact, extremely dangerous. Tobacco cigarettes should be illegal in the United States due to their plethora of negative effects on the population and the environment. If cigarettes were banned, the country would be a much better place. Pollution, diseases and fatalities would dramatically decrease, while productivity, financial stability and overall health would increase.

Do we really want our children smoking cigarettes? Don’t you want to live long enough to see your grandchildren grow up. Seeing them take their first steps, Saying their first words, having the experience of having those warm embracing hugs with them? Being able to be by their side when they feel like they’re alone in the world, well it seems like the majority of the world doesn’t, I agree with banning cigarettes because, of the dangers it brings to non-smokers, the disease increase,and death increase. With every cigarette we choose to light up, inhale we decide to trade a piece of our lives for a couple minutes of delight, on average 11 to 12 yrs of our life is taken from us.

Every year the US government passes numerous laws to protect its citizens. Yet, they still fail to protect its citizens from the leading cause of death in America. Although they work to protect the citizens they continue to ignore the most preventable death in America. The culprit responsible for these deaths is the cigarette. The impact that cigarettes make on a human is awful and there should be no reason why it is legal. Cigarettes should be banned because it is one of the harm fullest drugs around that is still legal. Cigarettes not only affect ones health but it affects the environment, economy and others around them.

The use of tobacco has become a global problem. Tobacco poses serious health issues to both kids and adults. People in today's society believe that the government has no right to take smoking away from the public. I think of it in a completely different way. First of all smoking is very expensive. These expenses don't just get payed by the people; non smokers also pay for people to smoke indirectly. They pay for people to smoke via public assistance. Second of all, smoking is extremely bad for your health. Smoking results in many health complications. Finally, smoking does not just risk the life of a smoker. Smoking will also harm the people around you.

I will be discussing the topic why smoking should be banned in the workplace (inside and outside). I’ll be covering the loss of productivity in the workplace and the benefits of a smoke free workplace. In my opinion smoking should be banned in the workplace because the productivity is what makes a business and the benefits are a healthier and safer environment producing a better corporate image.

The usage and production of cigarettes is not new, but it should finally be put to an end. Everybody seems to put the use of cigarettes on the sideline when it comes to personal self destruct. The media focuses of how the opioid crisis is damaging people and their families, but what about the use of cigarettes? “Researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all health care spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke.”(Reuters, Thomson). Although classified as legal here in the United States of America, smoking is the “Leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States.” ("Campaign Overview.") Granting all this, people do have the right to do whatever they please. However, the production, and usage

Spending money on smoking is too much and leads to nothing, and there are no benefits that people can get from smoking. Smoking can hit personal finances and smokers are burning their money for no reason. Instead of using money to get cigarettes, people can donate to non-government organizations to wipe out poverty and change people’s lives. Smoking is a major factor that is destroying the environment. Smoking cigarettes is bad for the air. People who do not smoke have to breathe the bad air around the smokers. Smoking needs to be banned in public to let other people breathe the fresh air. Most Americans are exposed to outdoor and indoor air that can cause cancer and other serious health problems. Smoking is a serious problem that needs to be taken care of. If we want a strong environment, clean environment, and a good public health, we need to ban smoking once and for all.

Do you or someone you know smoke cigarettes? Do they know what comes with taking in those pleasurable puffs? Many don’t, that is why cigarette manufacturers ought to have more said about what is being done to these death sticks. Numerous people don’t know that the tobacco industry adjusts the nicotine levels in cigarettes to make it harder for people to quit, add ammonia to speed up the transfer of nicotine to the brain, and the industry, as a whole, has to replace those smokers who have quit or who are now dead (tobaccofree.com). With all the health risks associated with tobacco products, the ultimate risk of cancer and death, the planting, harvesting, and distribution of tobacco products, especially cigarettes, should be illegal in the United States.

Cigarettes aren't just bad for our health their bad for the environment to. According to the Bolton Stop Smoking Service it takes five to ten years for a cigarette to biograde, unless someone would clean them up. Cigarettes pollute the air and can cause animals and people to get sick. Also about fifteen billion cigarettes are being smoked everyday, that means 1,643,836 trees are being cut down everyday. This information is stating that a cigarette will take five to ten years to decompose. Also showing that cigarettes affect the environment around us. In addition to that lots of cigarettes are being smoked leading to several trees being cut down. So as a result cigarettes are bad for the environment and should be illegal.

If you’ve watched television it’s likely you know about the no cigarette law campaign, over the years there has been less smokers and nevertheless a campaign came along trying to make an anti-cigarette law. As a critical thinker, i decided there should NOT be a anti-cigarette law but, I do agree with the message to rid of smoking.

11/12 people that I surveyed said that they would never smoke in their life. This proves, again, that there are no pros to smoking and nothing good would come out of it, secondhand smoke is harmful to others around you who have to inhale it against their will, and smoking kills many people and causes many diseases each year. Cigarettes should be illegal and not sold in any stores, any longer! Let’s continue the trend of banning smoking everywhere such as in, local places such as parks, hospitals, restaurants, etc.So, when you see a pack of cigarettes, just ask yourself, would you want to be like Taylor’s

It is estimated that 36.5 million adults smoke in the United States of America (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). A cigarette contains 7,000 chemicals and 70 of those can cause cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). When someone decides to smoke a cigarette, they are not only choosing to allow those toxins into their body but are imposing all those same toxins on anyone around them. Secondhand smoke is the combination of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke breathed out by smokers and is considered more dangerous then smoking the cigarette (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention B). Every year 480,000 people in the United States of America die because of cigarette smoking, which is the leading cause of preventable disease and death. Why has this deadly habit become such a casual part of the American life? This habit is not only harmful to the person smoking, but is hurting everyone around them. It may be their decision to smoke and cause damage to their own bodies but when they decide to smoke in public they are infringing on the rights of everyone around them right to protect their health. Smoking should be made illegal because it is not only harmful to the smokers but also causes harm to fetuses in utero, developing children and any other adults who may breathe that smoke in.