Smoking Should Be Banned In America

Smoking should be illegal in the United States Tobacco takes over 450,000 lives each year. Smoking tobacco can cause more death than alcohol and drug use combined and multiplied by two and it is still less than smoking. Smoking can harm you by taking your life. Smoking can harm

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.

Help Save The World Each year more than 480,000 deaths occur each year in the United States due to cigarette smoking, which is nearly one of every five person (“Disease”). According to the CDC, smoking causes more deaths than the following things combined: HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, and firearm-related incidents (“Disease”). Here is a doctor’s thoughts on if cigarettes should be banned:

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.

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

Every year the US government passes numerous laws to protect its citizens. Yet, they still fail to protect its citizens from the leading cause of death in America. Although they work to protect the citizens they continue to ignore the most preventable death in America. The culprit responsible for these deaths is the cigarette. The impact that cigarettes make on a human is awful and there should be no reason why it is legal. Cigarettes should be banned because it is one of the harm fullest drugs around that is still legal. Cigarettes not only affect ones health but it affects the environment, economy and others around 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.

Throughout grade school and high school, students are highly encouraged by teachers and facility to decline the use of cigarettes and other tobacco products. At home, most children are also pushed to say no to these crops, even from tobacco users in the family. Tobacco comes with a series of consequences in our nation’s health, cost, and image. Although our nation outlaws the use of recreational marijuana use, which has little to no side effects, we continue to allow our nation to poison itself with nicotine-infused, hazardous tobacco products. Tobacco products should be banned and outlawed in the U.S. for sabotaging the health of our community.

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 affects the population. People die everyday from smoking. One out of five deaths is caused by smoking. The U.S. is full of addicts. When you start smoking, it is nearly impossible to stop. Thousand of people start smoking in their teen years. People say they will stop. Most people never stop smoking and they smoke for the rest of their life. They eventually die of a smoke disease caused by smoking. There are only a few people from each generation that start smoking, say they will stop, and do stop. Those people are lucky they didn't get addicted. “Also, second hand smoke affects others, and pollutes the environment.” according to http://www.livestrong.com/article/207919-three-reasons-why-smoking-should-be-banned/. This smoking habit

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