“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 In the first place, there are no pros to smoking and nothing good would come out of it. According to WebMD, “Tobacco smoke has more than 4,000 chemical compounds, at least 250 are known to cause disease.” Also, conforming to CDC, smoking can cause cancer in every part of the body. Unfortunately, more than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from smoking than all the wars in U.S. history. Therefore, no matter what it is, it is not worth that amount of deaths, especially something that does nothing but harm everything in your body. On the other hand, many people will complain that although they want to stop, they have the made the mistake of smoking once and now they are …show more content…
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
For years cigarettes have been known to cause cancer, emphysema, and other horrible illnesses. The deaths of over 420,000 Americans this year will be attributable to cigarettes. With some of the other causes of preventable deaths such as, alcohol, illegal drugs, AIDS, suicide, transportation accidents, fires, and guns, cigarettes still account for more preventable deaths than those do combined, as stated by Lonnie Bristow M.D. of the American Medical Association at her speech to Indiana University. Some researchers have also found that smoking by pregnant women causes the deaths of over 5,000 babies and 115,000 miscarriages. The best way to get rid of the suffering and loss of life by cigarettes is to ban them. We can no longer stand aside and watch fellow Americans die because they smoke cigarettes. Thousands of smokers try to rid
In 1979, the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth used the Peabody Individual Achievement Test to show that children born to smoking mother’s had an IQ that was on average, 2.87 points lower than other children. This study was not respected until the 1990’s when there were several efforts by both the United States Congress and the U.S Food and Drug Administration to protect youth from cigarettes. Prior to this, Americans tried to deny the fact that tobacco was harmful due to the glorification of the product as well as how frequently it was used in pop culture. However, in the last decade attention has shifted to secondhand smoke awareness. Although the ability to purchase the products has been revoked for children, it is still legal for their parents to do so. This secondhand smoke is extremely dangerous, especially for children. That being said, we should start to eradicate tobacco around them.
In the article “Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition” by Robert Procter states that “Another objection commonly raised to any call for a ban is that this will encourage smuggling, or even organized crime.” I can agree with this statement although this author is for banning this statement brings out a huge issue that could potentially arise from banning tobacco. If there is a will there will be a way. Another outrageous idea I read in the article called “Regulatory Approaches to Ending Cigarette-Caused Death and Diseases in the United States” by Richard Daynard was the fact that the government would give tobacco companies a limit to how many cigarettes that can produce each year. By doing this it stated by the end of 2015 “it would become unlawful for a cigarette manufacturer to produce more than two-thirds of the brands baseline.”. So not only would the indoor-outdoor smoking bans be in effect the government would now be regulating the amount of cigarettes produced in the United States. Therefore I feel as strongly as others about banning smoking rights. I am a non-smoker myself and as long as you aren’t purposefully blowing smoke in my face, feel free to do as you please. While you can, that is.
Like most people, you already know that smoking is bad for your health. But do you really understand just how dangerous smoking really is? Smoking and use of tobacco products, including cigars and smokeless tobacco, cause or worsen numerous diseases and conditions (American Lung Association, 2016). There are just around 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, and 4,000 chemicals in one cigarette. There are many reasons why smoking should be banned in the United States.
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.
Every year cigarette smoking is responsible for 500,000 premature deaths (Nugel), you do not want to be just another statistic, do you? America’s first cash crop was tobacco. That means that tobacco has been around for a really long time. It was not until 1865, though, that cigarettes were sold commercially. They were sold to soldiers at the end of the Civil War (Dowshen). From then, cigarettes spread like wildfire, and it was not until 1964 that anyone made a stand about the negative effects of tobacco and cigarettes. People start smoking for all different reasons, some to fit in and some to “escape”. Regardless, it is a horrible habit. 3900 children will try their first cigarette today. Amongst adults who currently smoke, 68% of them
Have you or a loved one ever been injured or killed by cigarettes or other tobacco products? Well let me Dominick O’keefe explain to you why cigarettes and other tobacco products should be outlawed based on: physical, mental, and emotional health.
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.
After reading all this and knowing it you should help make cigarettes illegal. They affect our atmosphere. Other people have to suffer because some people smoke. All these reasons are why I think cigarettes should be
Way back in the 50’s, smoking a cigarette was seen as one of the best things you could do. Nowadays, it’s seen as one of the worst. It’s been proven time and time again that cigarettes are unhealthy, and they should be banned. Though some still think smoking is acceptable, it’s very harmful to your well-being. Cigarettes should be banned because of the multitude of health problems they cause, including lung cancer, and because they can be extremely addictive.
The reason cigarette are so bad for you is because they apparently come with a lot of chemicals your body does not need. just one cigarette contains over thousands of chemicals that are bad for your body, and that can harm your immune system, your blood stream, your lungs even. Its been known to cause cancer, or severe cancer, and the affects of you going back is zero to zero chance. Some people that have stopped smoking still have side affects, for example, they have the shakes. or really bad
Imagine we lived in a world where smoking was banned… we could prevent, life-threatening diseases, premature demise, the death of wildlife, and 2.5 million losses caused by the exposure to secondhand smoke. (“Tobacco Facts and Figures” 1) Although cigarette smoking has decreased from 12.6% to 7%, 42 million Americans still continue to smoke regularly. (“Tobacco-Related Cancers Fact Sheet” 1) America’s media has a way of glamorizing this toxic product and consequently influencing more individuals to jeopardize their lives and everything around them in order for people to perceive them in a “cool” manner. All in all, smoking should be prohibited in the United States because it negatively impacts society as a whole. Cigarettes not only causes deadly diseases in the
In conclusion, smoking should be banned because it is killing people everyday. Smokers die about 10 years earlier than non-smokers on average. 10 years are taken from them by cigarettes. So to anyone who smokes, quit smoking, do everything possible to get rid of the habit that can take over someone's life. Non-smokers write letters, sign petitions and stay away from smoking, this can be
In today’s modern world, cigarettes have become something of a phenomenon. They plague the earth’s environment, they cause a steady incline in the healthcare spending of countries ever year, and they bring death and harm to those that use them. Yet, cigarettes remain a big part of both American society and the world at large. Why? Well, it has everything to do with the big name tobacco companies that loom over every country’s economy and the little effort put into counteracting their efforts to destroy young, malleable minds. Cigarettes should be banned legally, because cigarette companies get too much economic and legal power from their products, the costs of cigarettes far outweigh the benefits, and spending on prevention programs does not
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.