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Smoking Persuasive Research Paper

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Does anyone in your family smoke tobacco? If so, you should know that it’s the leading cause of preventable death, also pollutes the environment and contributes to deforestation and it slowly is killing our youth and our future. I have many friends and family members that smoke the age ranging from 14-80 years old. Most of them are either quitting or trying to quit, the statistics in the united states for people that are trying to quit smoking is every 7/10 smokers, in 2015 55.4% of adult smokers had tried to quit smoking in the past year. Although it might be hard to quit smoking it is worth it! Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths. Every year 439,000 people die from smoking. Non-smokers live about an average of 10 years more than smokers. …show more content…

Smoking is causing deforestation. 600 million trees are chopped down every year because of the tobacco industry. For every 15 packs a smoker smokes one tree dies. Smoking is also causing major pollution. United states tobacco industries produce 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year, and worldwide is four times as much. Shutting down the tobacco industry would be equivalent to taking 16 million cars off the roads every year! The smoke is not the only component of a cigarette that is bad for the environment, the cigarette buts also do. Cigarettes make up over 1/3 (38%) of all collected litter! The cost for cigarette clean up is allot, cities spend between 3-16 million dollars, just because u where to lazy to walk to the nearest garbage can and dispose of your cigarette correctly. You might think that cigarettes would just decompose due to weathering, but studies show that even after 10 years it still leaves a little residue. This is because a cigarette but is made mostly from plastic. The earth is not a trash can and we only have one, so we must keep it

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