Smoking : A Ban On Tobacco

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.

It causes cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia” (Anonymous, nd, para. 6). Several hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent every year on the treatment of cancer due to smoking.

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.

Cigarette smoking is one of the worst possible things you could do to your body. Cigarettes kill roughly “480,000 people a year in the United states” according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). So why do we still allow them to be sold? Why are we advertising cigarettes in a way that makes younger people want to start smoking? How is that the government know for a fact the cigarettes cause serious health and death, but still does almost nothing about it? In this essay I am going to tell you the facts about why cigarettes should be banned in the U.S. I'm going to talk about the effects smoking cigarettes has on the human body. How smokers cost the healthcare system almost 200 billion dollars a year. And how tobacco businesses are spending billions of dollars a year to keep people smoking

Tobacco companies make nearly $1 million every hour a day or $24 million a day. Tobacco has been around for centuries, as far back as the american indians. Tobacco was one of the first crops grown for money. The amount of pollution and harm the tobacco and cigarette companies cause every year is alarming. Tobacco is hurting the country through pollution, cancer causing chemicals, and debris of tobacco products. “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation” (Proctor). Cigarettes are harmful to everyone, including the environment, and anyone near a cigarette smoker or someone who abuses tobacco. If tobacco companies do not slow or stop producing harmful products like cigarettes and cigars then they will

Have you ever choked on someone’s second hand smoke? Well I have. In the world there are fifteen billion cigarettes sold a day. That is ten million sold every minute! In this, I will be telling you about how smoking is bad for you, bad for the environment, and ways smoking in public can be stopped. Smoking should be banned!

Smoking cigarettes has been a huge public health issue in America for many years. They should be banned for they’ve caused many people their lives. The United States government along with other countries like the UK have moved towards a ban on cigarette smoking in public places. Defender of this approach argue that smoking cigarettes cause health risks for non-smokers. This may lead to a major economic consideration for Tobacco is the second major cause of mortality in the world. “[Tobacco] imposes a terrible toll in health, lives and dollars on families, business and government. Tobacco kills more than 400,000 people annually — more than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined.”

On Feb 6, 2001, Government of India announced a bill banning Tobacco Companies from advertising their products and sponsoring sports and cultural events. The objective was to discourage adolescents from consuming tobacco products and also arm the Government with powers to launch an anti-Tobacco Program.

With the changing of times, many places over the years have gone smoke free. Some of these places include: hospitals, airplanes, restaurants, bars, universities, schools, hotels and many others. One of the places in Anchorage that has recently gone smoke free is the University of Anchorage Alaska. According to an article titled “History of Smoke and Tobacco-Free UAA” (n.d.), “With the new policy, UAA joins more than 1,500 colleges and universities in the U.S. that are smoke or tobacco free.” This policy was voted for and created by students to positively influence the health of students and faculty in the University System and to decrease the amount of secondhand smoke. According to an article titled “UAA Smoke and Tobacco-Free” (n.d.), “The new smoke and tobacco-free policy encourages health and safety and promotes a supportive environment that helps those who want to quit and prevents young people from smoking and using tobacco in the first place.” UAA officially became a smoke free campus November 17, 2015 during the Great American Smokeout, and has provided resources for quitting. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014) states “Smokefree laws and policies have been proven to reduce the incidence of heart attacks and other coronary events among people younger than 65 years of age, and evidence suggests that there could be a relationship between such laws and policies and a reduction in cerebrovascular

Frequently, death, doom and destruction are what come to people’s minds when cigarettes come to mind. I have personally witnessed the evils of smoking, some of them being small and others large. Problems anywhere from respiratory problems to severe health crises and even mortality can occur.

The costs of smoking are worse than you imagined. Furthermore the amount of money spent on careless smoking is about six billion dollars a year. The united states also spend one hundred billion dollars a year on smoking related illnesses. For instance, you are going to pay up to one thousand dollars extra a year for life insurance. You will pay more in health insurance not just life insurance. Equally important, you will also pay more homeowners insurance along with the others (Cross). The amount of money you pay a year is enormous too, like a pack a day habit costs 2,190 dollars just buying cigarettes . For those who think a pack a week is better it is but not that much better it is like three hundred and twenty dollars just for

The amount of tobacco products used everyday in the world has grown enormously. An article titled, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states, “an estimated 4.6 million middle and high school students were current users of any tobacco products” (Neff 2015). With the amounts increasing each year, something needs to be done to help decrease the number and stop it from increasing any higher. Even when tobacco is not being used directly, it can affect people and animals. The smoke that is left out in the air can be brought into other people’s lungs for them to breath, which is just as dangerous as smoking it yourself. Another way that smoke can affect people is when it is in contact with clothing or furniture. This is known as third hand smoke and it is also dangerous for people not using tobacco products. When innocent people are in contact with tobacco from other users, the amount of money spent for medical bills for cancer and other related diseases increases. These amounts could decrease if there is a way to get people to stop smoking, or to at least help them decrease the amount of tobacco they are using.

One of the most common problems today that are killing people all over the world is smoking. Stress, personal issues, and high blood pressure are many reasons why people start this horrible habit. One cigarette leads to another which then can lead to major addiction. When someone smokes a cigarette they are not only hurting themselves, but others around them. Smoking causes people to be exposed to hazardous fumes and chemicals in many places. The habit of smoking is not only bad for a persons body, it also is very unhealthy for their wallet and the economy due to many hidden costs that people do not realize. A ban can lead to smoking prevention, help lower the risk of second-hand smoke, and help put money back into the wallets of smokers. Smoking should be banned due to its harmful effects on individuals and the economy.

Smoking is a dangerous and expensive habit that comes with no benefit. Cigarettes are known for being one of the leading causes of preventable deaths worldwide. With very little success, many efforts have been made to put an end to smoking cigarettes, such as tax raises, restrictions on where smokers can smoke, and graphic advertising on the cigarette packet themselves. The harmful effects of cigarettes are endless, such as heart disease and various types of cancer. Cigarettes are also polluting the earths waters, land, and even wildlife. All in all, cigarettes should be banned because banning cigarettes would help save the environment, bring huge health benefits, and ultimately, put an end to preventable deaths.

In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that 16.8% of the population were smokers in the United States down from 42.4% in 1965, the first year the CDC started tracking that figure (“Trends in Current Cigarette Smoking Among High School Students and Adults, United States, 1965–2014” cdc.gov). Smoking bans are partially to thank in addition to education efforts for the plummeting number of smokers in this country, however, smoking bans in public parks should have no part in the effort to end tobacco dependency. Smoking bans in US public parks should be illegal because it would be extremely difficult to enforce, it limits individual liberties and ostracizes people, and the negative health impact to others outdoors is