Persuasive Essay About Smoking

Smoking is an activity that has been around for many years for people to use and adapt into their lifestyle. It is a tool that many people use to help reduce the stresses of life and put them in a comfortable position that enables them to cope with the hectic lifestyle they are living. However, smoking has been scientifically proven to cause many types of cancer, the most common being lung cancer resulting in numerous deaths across the United States. According to BBC, "Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease" (BBC, 2). Evidently, the benefits and drawbacks of smoking have been debated for many years, and only recently have some countries have placed a ban in public places such as Britain and the United

Is smoking a cigarette like aiming a smoking gun to your head? Absolutely, yes! The photo above, has a very powerful message to be shared with people all over the world. The creator of the picture above is, The American Cancer Society. This is an organization that is trying to heighten awareness of the dangers of smoking, the most threatening danger being, cancer. They also promote relays which help raise money for ads and research. The money raised helps to inform people of the dangers smoking and what the negative outcomes of such a habit. This society also helps with finding treatment options. They are helping people cope with the side effects of various cancers or to advise on health insurance. A certain population of people, particularly young people, see smoking as a cool or hip idea to fit in. The goal of this visual argument is to inform people who smoke cigarettes that they should just hold a gun to their heads. The American people should be against nonsmoking because of the feelings you get when smoking, the chemicals that are involved, and how the cigarette will kill like a loaded gun.

Smoking tobacco is probably one of the worst habits humankind has developed. Originating as a tradition of the Native Americans, practiced mostly on special occasions, smoking has gradually become a kind of mass addiction. Due to the efforts of tobacco companies seeking to increase their sales, people started smoking more and more often; the evolution of a more traditional pipe to a cigarette took some time, but eventually tobacco became more affordable and easier to use (you now simply need to light it up, instead of having to always carry a tobacco pouch, stuff a pipe, puff it, and so on). As a result, deaths and health issues connected to tobacco consumption became a worldwide

Smoking kills. Smoking can cause cancer and other bad diseases. Also, companies have made cigarettes in different flavors which are worse than regular cigarettes. People who smoke can be addicted. If you try to stop smoking cold turkey, it will give you headaches and stomachaches. I wanted to research this topic because I have some really close friends and they have family that smoke. Their great-grandpa died from smoking. Also, I noticed a lot of people are dying because they made the bad decision to smoke. Some people started to smoke when they were teenagers. They got addicted to it, and now they can’t stop smoking. I wanted to try to find a way people who smoke can stop. How can countries solve and stop smoking? This problem can be solved and it will be solved because countries are starting to ban smoking from certain places.

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.

One of the first reasons why I believe that they should make smoking cigarettes illegal in the United States is because you are not only doing damage to your body by smoking, buy you are also damaging the bodies of people around you. This is called environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or more commonly known as secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is just as harmful as if you were smoking the cigarette and you still get all of the negative health effects associated with them. Many people are not able to avoid the secondhand smoke and risk getting many terrible diseases and illnesses. Some people have to go to their workplace and risk getting affected from the secondhand smoke that is around them. Many companies recognize how bad cigarettes are and

Cigarette smoking has become quite common in today’s world with an estimated nearly 42.1 million Americans smoking on a daily basis (Center for Disease Control, 2014). Smoking can be detrimental to a person’s health, as well as doing damage to the environment. Smoking is in no one’s best interest, and for that reason, smoking should be banned in the United States.

First, smoking cigarettes can cause health problems. In some severe cases, people sometimes have to get their teeth removed, and smoking can cause lung cancer and premature death. Studies show the death rate for smoking cigarettes has gone up throughout the years and people aren’t doing anything about it or given it the attention it needs. Not only can smoking be harmful to the smoker, but to the people around that are still breathing in the harmful chemicals.If cigarettes

Smoking is not good for people it is a bad way to make yourself feel good. I do not like smoking because a family member of mine smokes and he says he does it to relieve stress. When he comes to visit he smells just like he just had a cigarette. My grandmother also smokes and I keep telling her “it is not good” and she says I am old I can do whatever I want. One time my family and I were on the road to Houston and my grandma found out and told my mom to bring her some cigarettes. My mom quickly said no and we did not go visit her. I believe no one should smoke. Smoking is not good for anyone to do, they should just ban

Smoking tobacco is known for being detrimental to a person's health. When you smoke a cigarette you are inhaling a toxic mix of chemicals including formaldehyde, ammonia, arsenic and cyanide. Along with the inhaling of carcinogenic chemicals smokers also deal with nicotine addiction. Nicotine is highly addictive and makes quitting very difficult for those who smoke. Many smokers continue to smoke knowing the harmful effects but, even worse, some people willingly smoke while they are pregnant. Women who smoke during pregnancy create a very unhealthy environment for themselves and their unborn child. Pregnant women who smoke should stop immediately to ensure the health of their child. Smoking while pregnant can lead to serious health effects such as premature birth, birth defects and death.

The numbers of people who smoke have increase over the years. Although they are equipped with the knowledge of how unhealthy smoking can be, people still choose to smoke. It is a personal choice and a highly addictive habit. Smokers choose to subject themselves to the health risks of smoking. It is not for the government or any third party to dictate whether or not a person should be allowed to smoke. However, smoking does not only affect the smoker negatively. It also affects all the people around those who smoke because when people smoke in pubic the smoke travels everywhere through the air, and the negative effects of this smoke affects all living, breathing creatures. Therefore smoking should be banned in all public places.

In the 1950's, the ultimate expression of glamour was smoking cigarettes. Think about any of the old movies, or tv shows you might have watched from this decade. Back then, a cigarette dangling from someone's lips was seen as alluring and sophisticated. Never mind the fact that they were cheap, but smoking was also so widely accepted that you could smoke anywhere and everywhere. You could walk into just about any building and see a thick, blue cloud of smoke swirling above you. Imagine going on vacation and travelling by airplane. "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking," would come from a speaker. You're sitting in a cabin that’s been slowly filling with smoke, and the captain most likely was putting his cigarette out moments before your descent. Today, we all know how harmful smoking is, so we slowly started cleaning the air around us by only allowing smoking in designated areas. Smoking is no longer seen as glamorous and cool, instead smokers are portrayed as smelly people with yellow teeth. Nobody is even allowed to smoke inside the airports anymore let alone inside of an airplane that's flying miles high in the sky, with no windows to open. Regardless of stereotypes and isolation smokers experience today, some people continue to light up, myself included. My question is, do you think a ban should be placed on smoking in order to save my life, along with all of the other smoker's out there? Absolutely not.

Around the age of sixteen is when I began smoking cigarettes on a daily basis. For me, smoking a cigarette is a quick fix to the stress I experience throughout the day. All my friends were doing it and my parents were doing it, so why should not I do it? Most of growing up my parents would always say something along the lines of, “I need a cigarette before I can deal with this”. Noticeably, this is not a healthy coping mechanism with life’s stressors so now the addiction part plays a huge part when why I am still using this unhealthy ‘coping mechanism’. I am not blind to the damage I am doing to my body with every puff of toxins I breathe into my lungs, however; it is a very convenient way to forget about the world for a brief seven minutes. With all of that said, I would love to change my unhealthy life choices.

Smoking is one of the practices which is considered highly dangerous to our health because it impacts the smoker and the people around them. There are approximately one billion smokers. Smoking is a big issue that the nonsmoker faces. For example, when the smokers smoke in public places like restaurants, universities and other public places it hurts the non-smoker. The non-smoker breathing the cigarette, marijuana or hookah smoke from the smoker do both of them are breathing toxic chemicals. In a cigarette there are more than 5,000 chemicals and that is the easiest way to cause health problems. Smoking should be banned in public places because it effect the non-smokers health such as respiratory system, harm lung cancers, and the last thing is heart disease.

However, some people think that not allowing smoking in public places is like not allowing their freedom of choice. According to columnist Dan Hemp, “we have the choice of going to any public place where we feel comfortable” (Hemp). People have the choice for everything they want to do but sometimes people have to compromise at some point. Smokers have choices too, they can smoke if they want but if they try to avoid some public places for smoking then it can save hundreds of lives. Smokers can save the environment for kids and elders.