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Why Should Cigarettes Be Illegal

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Cigarettes are a very dangerous drug in the world this is why something must be done so it is stopped from being sold, smoked, and encouraged. The reasons that cigarettes should be banned are listed below. Cigarettes are very harmful to people and sometimes even the communities that people live in because of some of the toxins that cigarette smoke gives off. Cigarettes can be very costly with the resources that are needed to make them as well. The support to these reasons are listed in the following paragraphs.

Cigarettes cause serious harm to people as there are more than 4 million people dying yearly because of smoking cigarettes as it is the leading cause of death in the world as Dr. Michael Roizen has stated. Not only does smoking affect the smoke but, it can also affect the communities that people live in today with the deadly toxins that are put into cigarettes which can also cause pollution ("TreeHugger", 2002). The nicotine in
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This could become a serious problem because if smoking cigarettes does become illegal then smokers may try to find an alternative such as marijuana. Marijuana is said to do worse damage to your body than cigarettes do ("Partnership for Drug-Free Kids", 1997). Smoking one marijuana joint is equivalent to smoking 2.5 to 5 cigarettes in terms of damage to the lungs as studies has shown ("Partnership for Drug-Free Kids", 1997).

For the last reason why smoking should be banned is because it can cause damage to your personal appearance and can cause damage to the way you act in nature. Smoking can give people various diseases and health problems with the many different items that are made into cigarettes putting the smoker at risk of many harmful diseases ("National Cancer Institute", 2004). Smoking cigarettes can cause cancer, heart strokes, and makes it harder for a woman to get pregnant ("National Cancer Institute",
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