Production and Sale of Cigarettes Should Be Illegal

According to “The Action of Smoking and Health,” every six seconds someone loses their life as a result of a tobacco related disease. It’s hard to realize how damaging cigarette smoking’s effect can be until you experience it first hand. It is almost certain that every one knows someone who is currently a smoker or was a smoker at some point in their life. For years smoking was the seen as the “cool” thing to do, it was how to “fit in.” There was no real emphasis placed on the dangers of this particular habit, and as a result, it became a world wide trend. In the past, technology and medicine were not nearly advanced enough to be able to determine just how harmful tobacco usage is. However, as we have made medical and

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

Cigarettes and other tobacco products should be made illegal because of the economic effects, addictive properties, secondhand smoke, and can lead to disease and/or death.

Tobacco has been around in the world for over 2.5 million years. It was not until a few hundred years ago when the tobacco industry decided to put these crops into use and conjure up tobacco products for the community. A popular tobacco product in society is cigarettes, as they are cheap and simple to use. As long as one is over eighteen, acquiring cigarettes is a straightforward process for a reasonable price, albeit the sin tax. It was not until recently when cigarettes became widely controversial due to the plant containing nicotine, an addictive drug to the body. Aside from containing nicotine and other hazardous chemicals to the body, cigarettes also cause a whole host of health implications

Smoking has been a controversial issue in public culture as well in media. When someone smokes, the person lights the tobacco and all the chemicals so they burn. The person breathes in the smoke so it goes through the airways and into the lungs. The nicotine in the smoke get passed into the blood. Throughout the 20 century smoking has garnered too much attention on tv and in people life. Moreover 100 million people died from tobacco related diseases in the 20th century without action taken. Tobacco kills up 50% of its users, even though 1 billion people could die this century from tobacco related diseases. One research conducted by CNN in 1994 showed that 40% of people are in favor for smoking. Yet another research by Anna Heart showed that 70% population are for knowing public smoking. All thing consider smoking has a lot of disadvantages more than advantages and represent death. Personally I’m against smoking for many reasons health, addiction.

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.

People that smoke are the people that get all the unhealthy stuff in a body like cancer and many diseases that can be caused.“If smoking persists at the current rate among young adults in this country, 5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are projected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. Another 100,000 were babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (often referred to as SIDS) or complications from prematurity, low birth weight, or other conditions caused by parental smoking, particularly smoking by the mother. “Smoking has been around for a long time. The problem with smoking became worse when “production climbed markedly when another cigarette-making machine was developed in the 1880s by James Albert Bonsack, which vastly increased the productivity of cigarette companies, which went from making about 40,000 hand-rolled cigarettes daily to around 4 million.” Smoking is a problem around the world because it causes lung cancer, many other cancers, and some horrible diseases. This problem should be solved because “More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history.”

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.

Should cigarette smoking be banned for everyone in the United States? Why? Why not? Should those who chose their time smoking to relieve stress, personal enjoyment, or simply just because, have to lose their right to what makes them happy? Smoking tobacco products has been around for decades and in many different forms. Should personal rights be pushed aside to please those around us that disagree with the so called “disgusting habit”? In the paper The Washington Times an article caught my interest called”D.C. seeks bans on smoking in national parks” written by Steven Dinan. In this article he stated that “Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton wrote Park Service Regional Director Steve Whitesell saying she’s heard from constituents who fear

Guaranteed health deterioration, pollution, and rapid aging and appearance deterioration; does that appeal to you in any way? No, great! So, please remove cigarettes from your life. Dare to be different. Inspire others to learn about the risks of this deadly substance. Dare to make a difference. Daily cigarette smoking is considered substance abuse. Yes, substance abuse. I am not just emphasizing alcohol and other illegal drugs, cigarette smoking too. Why? It is simply because it possesses serious consequences as some of the widely recognized substances except cigarettes are not widely accepted by many to be as equally dangerous. Why are cigarettes effects ignored? The general public has deemed cigarettes to be unequally dangerous as other substances without any proven evidence to support their claims. Needless to say, the evidence currently presented by experts from scientific experiments has proven otherwise. Again, the public decided to ignore these facts. Now, many would respond to my claims by indicating “you are just an advocate attempting to persuade the general public of your opinions.” Yes, I am an advocate and will remain to be an advocate. If I can change one person, I have achieved success because one person can make a difference. That one person can inspire another person and that person can move on

Smoking is an expensive habit. People who smoke cigarettes can spend as much as $2,500 a year on them. Smokers’ claim that it helps relax them and it releases stress but the negative aspects of smoking outweigh the positive. Smoking is a health hazard for smokers and non-smokers. Smokers should have the right to choose what to do with their own health but they should respect non-smokers. Many people believe that there are good and bad outcomes from smoking. I believe that smoking is bad and that it should be banned.

Latest tendencies are showing that almost six trillion cigarettes are consumed annually worldwide” (“Tobacco industry”. Statista). The way Americans consume cigarettes is another thing threatening our physical health. Just the effects of smoking a cigarette alone is physically harmful. It has a bigger take on people’s health when it is about a pack of cigarettes a day. It is an addicting substance that messes with your internal organs. When people are fighting for their mental and physical health they cannot take care of themselves properly. Then their physical health starts to take a turn for the worse and it starts to decline too far for recovery. When all this could have been avoided by saying no to a

To this day several people continue to smoke even after they are shown the effects and harm that they are doing to their own body and the risks that come from it. After several years of smoking their lives away people become diagnosed with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, this is a disease that makes it harder for people to breathe. The disease only progresses if you continue to smoke and remains untreated and can lead to heart failure and even death. More than 16 million people in the United States of America have been diagnosed with a smoking-related disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “nearly 17 out of every 100 U.S. American adults at the age of 18 or older currently smoke cigarettes.” Smoking doesn’t

“I hate to see you go like this, Mom. It shouldn’t have happened this way.” Taylor glared at the pack of cigarettes in her Mother’s hand as she took her last breaths and the cigarettes fell to the floor. She grabbed her mother’s greasy yellow fingers and scowled at her mother’s brown teeth, and kissed her wrinkled, distorted face. Smoking kills more than 480,000 people in the U.S. each year. Will you be one of them? Overall, I think that smoking should be banned from society. There are no pros to smoking, secondhand smoke is harmful, and finally, smoking kills many people and causes many diseases every year