“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
DNA collection is a good thing not only can it help catch the person responsible for an illegal crime, but it can also clear up a suspect’s name. In the case of Maryland v. King on April 2009 Alonzo Jay King was charged for first and second degree assault for scarring a crowd of people with a shotgun, he was arrested and as a part of their booking procedure, they swabbed Alonzo Jay King for his DNA. Kings DNA sample later resulted to be a match of a DNA sample in the system “CODIS” of a rape victim by the name of Vonette W.’s Salisbury. Vonnette was raped on September 2003 but had not gotten justice for the crime against her since the only evidence was the DNA sample of the semen that was swabbed. No matches were found in the data base until Alonzo Jay King was arrested. By collecting DNA, it can help lead to an arrest of a suspect and to be able to close cases.
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.
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.
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 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.
Have you ever heard the term “tobacco”? Chances are you have. We are taught about tobacco as adolescence and the effects it has on the human body. Impacts that are so great it turns our bodies into grotesque machines that run on this chemical. Have we forgotten the photographs of blackened lungs and yellow-brown teeth from our sixth grade text-books? It seems we have. 15.7% of all American teenagers smoke. 5.6% of all American teenagers use a smokeless tobacco products. These numbers are at an all-time low, but don’t you think we can do better? I know we can. In 2013 a percentage of 17.8 adults smoke. About 3.5 percent of American adults use a smokeless tobacco product. Need more convincing? Half of all cigarette smokers’ deaths are caused by smoking. Over 6
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.
Cigarette have been around since before I have been born, and the abuse cigarettes get is very high. Most people do not realize what abusing a cigarette can do to you, then again most people do not care. There has been advertisements about why its bad for you. There has been rallies trying to shut down company's, and there has been people going beyond there own risk to inform people. In my CTC campus, they have even band cigarette smoking around the campus. So it says a lot about cigarette, if there are so many things against it. Would you smoke a cigarette, after knowing everything it can do to you?
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.