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Tobacco Industry In The United States

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Tobacco is one of the largest industries funding to the economy of the United States. The tobacco industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and the revenue is constantly increasing due to needy consumers. The tobacco industry is now, more harmful than ever before. Even though, people realize that tobacco is harmful to one's health through tobacco taxes, advertisement bans, second hand smoke, and health warnings, many still smoke with the power of propaganda that tobacco companies have made. Tobacco industries are one of the most profitable industries that are able to sell products that will eventually kill their consumers. Tobacco use poses a dangerous health warning to adults in the United States and has major implications for this nation’s …show more content…

In particular, nearly all tobacco use begins in childhood and adolescence. Tobacco industries have youth-targeted additives in their tobacco and smokeless tobacco to attract teens. There are many different fruit flavor tobacco and cigars that attract the youth. Even though there are hundreds of programs to diminish youth smoking and a sufficient amount of stories in the media on the dangers of tobacco consumption, generation after generation continue to use these toxic products, and family after family continues to grieve the shattering consequences. As a result, the tobacco industry is the only one reaping benefits, finically, from tobacco.
In conclusion, the tobacco industry is very harmful to society’s health. Cigarettes are the only legal consumer products in the world that cause half of their long-term users to die prematurely. Putting a ban on advertisement was just a start to not advertise so the tobacco industry would not solicit children, but the tobacco industry has come up with different strategies to solicit adolescents even more. If a law was passed to ban tobacco completely, citizens of the United States would not have to worry about second hand smoke, reduces the chance of cancer, and health

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