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Cigarette Prohibition Why smoke cigarettes to get rid of your stress? Why stand outside in the cold to smoke a
Cigarette when there are more productive and more healthy habits that can benefit your life a whole lot more? Do you know how many people die everyday because of lung cancer caused by cigarettes? And how do smokers stand the awful fumes from the cigarettes. 25.6 people smoke cigarettes everyday all around the world. Most people start smoking in there teenage years because of peer pressure, because of parental influence, or as a self-medication to relieve stress. Cigarettes are made to ease physical and mental pain. Anything can be and influence to smoking such as the media, parents, and/or peers. This can easily
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If you go from one drug to another, the original drug. Sometimes you can find marijuana in the same environment as tobacco depending what state you are in that marijuana is legal or maybe that does not matter people will do illegal actions because of a feeling they can achieve by smoking a stronger substance from where they started such as cigarettes. Tobacco can be an easy thing to get ahold of if you are always around it. (NIH matters) Scientist have even proven this with mice, the mice went from nicotine to cocaine which proves this as well.This should show you smoking leads to even more pain and suffering. Proves that the substance in cigarettes such as nicotine is more than capable of leading to craving stronger drugs like cocaine, meth, and marijuana or anything a person can smoke. A gateway drug like cigarettes lead to even death. (NIH …show more content…
The pros are in favor more than the cons because one there are more and two because they all have a specific purpose such as reducing pollution which can lead to lessening global warming, by reducing health cost because less people need attention for their lungs and other problems related to smoking causes. (14 central pros and cons of smoking bans).
Cigarettes should be banned, it has a major death rate and can easily be stopped. Smoking is used for a stress or a pain relief, which is probably the only thing it is ok for. The amount of pain and stress will return later on in a slow painful death caused by lung cancer and other painful diseases. This matters strongly because it can save tons of lives. Everyone should be aware of how deadly smoking is and should come to an end as soon as
Cigarette companies use trends, age, culture, and other things to hook a person to their product. The companies mainly target teens because of their ignorance and teens who get addicted that young will likely be customers for life. Tobacco is promoted on almost every television network and 1/3 of adolescent experimentation with smoking results from the advertising. (Tobacco Free Broome and Tioga) Not only are cigarettes promoted on TV, but their promoted throughout everyone’s lifestyle. Maybe a role model you have, maybe one of your parents, or maybe a celebrity you enjoy following... any one of these people could smoke and the mindset of many is, “if they’re doing it, so can I”. Mike Magee smoked his first L&M cigarette when he nine years old, his parents smoked and kept cigarettes in the house and therefore they were accessible. He and his siblings said that learning how to smoke was
Cigarette smoking exists today because most people got into smoking before they were old enough to make an informed decision. Nicotine, aside from being poisonous, is a pretty amazing drug. It makes you more calm and alert simultaneously. It’s the only drug that does
Smoking should be banned because it harms the smoker. Smoking can cause the smoker to inhale 7,000 chemicals. Smoking can dramatically affect your lungs and kidneys. Nicotine, which is a major chemical, can turn your teeth and nails yellow. The smokers also refuse to stop, they think it’s only hurting them. Harming the smoker is one step, but the cigarette can just do more than that.
Most consumers say they smoke because it relieves a lot of stress, And that also most enjoyable right after a good meal. smoking can is highly addictive, but also is very hartmful to the body that can effect you for the rest of your life. This product bring various types cancer, and many other health risks. What makes the tobacco so addictive is the nicotine used within the product. Cigarette companies purposely infuse tobacco and nicotine together to make the product addictive the addiction from the nicotine keeps the comsumer at “Its knees” so they will purchase more. It was considered cool in the 1950s, persons unaware of the dangers hidden within. Every tobacco product has a waring label but smokers never read this warning label. Cigarattes
Everyone agrees that smoking is bad, so why is it legal? Cigarettes are bought by many people because of an addiction. Cigarettes are, but many people smoke a cigarette just to try and become hooked on this horrid, body destroying substances. These people try to quit but cigarettes can create an addiction and a habit that cannot be broken easily. These are some reasons why cigarettes should be outlawed.
Smoking relieves stress and everybody is their own person; they should be able to make their own decisions. Others talk about how happy they are when they smoke. However, on average one person per year spends $8,000 on packs and packs of cigarettes. Not only is it very pricey, but it also has a horrible stench as well as making their teeth turn yellow. House fires also occur because of the misuse of a cigar or cigarette. Stated in “10 Reasons Tobacco Should be Banned or not Banned,” “The NFPA says smoking causes 90,000 fires per year in the US, and that 90% of wildfires in the US are caused by smoking.” This is important to notice because almost every time somebody starts smoking, there is never a positive
If they begin smoking when they are young, it could lead them to other addictive and harmful drugs. Smoking can kill you so it should be banned on a street, in a park and everywhere else. I came across this article “smoking is not allowed in any public places anymore.” I totally agree with this decision. My friend was only sixteen when he began smoking. Why did he begin smoking? It was not as if he awake one morning and decided that, that was the day he would began smoking, but it was the constant exposure of seeing people smoking. He worked in a garage, and as customers waited for their vehicles to be washed and dried, they would have a smoke. After seeing people smoking he decided to try smoking a cigarette. A few days later he was smoking about a half pack a day, but then he got addicted and was smoking a pack or more a day. The worst part was when he was trying to quit. Even though he no longer works there, people were still smoking in front of the stores that he would shop at. Most smokers think that smoking is not influencing younger people. But younger people like to act as if they are grown up, and when they see adults smoke they want to emulate them. Smoking is a very bad habit to form and with a ban on smoking in public places, young people will not be exposed as often. Therefore, cigarettes should definitely be banned so as to make the world a better place for everyone to live. Can you imagine, dying because of
Cigarettes should be banned nationwide. Additionally, if there is any way to ban them worldwide, it should be an option. From the countless forms of cancer, to the millions of pounds of cigarette filter garbage, we have had countless research to prove cigarettes are very harmful to not only anyone who smokes them but anyone near them who is taking in second hand smoke.
The numbers of people who smoke have increased over the years. Although they are equipped with the knowledge of how unhealthy smoking can be, people still choose to smoke. It is a personal choice and a highly addictive habit. Smokers choose to subject themselves to the health risks of smoking. It is not for the government or any third party to dictate whether or not a person should be allowed to smoke. However, smoking does not only affect the smoker negatively. It also affects all the people around those who smoke because when people smoke in public the smoke travels everywhere through the air, and the negative effects of the smoke affects all living, breathing creatures. Therefore smoking should be banned in all public places.
Smoking cigarettes should be illegal due to the vast amount of annual deaths it causes. Smoking produces 10 times the amount of pollution that a diesel car exhaust would. This shows that not only are humans and animals affected by smoking, our environment is greatly damaged by the amount of pollution smoking creates. Smoking is something that people usually get addicted to, like a drug.This drug can cause many diseases such as lung cancer. Not only can it kill you, but it can kill those you love. It affects people you smoke around. A poll conducted in Gallup says nearly one-fourth of smokers said secondhand smoke is not too harmful or not harmful at all. This poll shows that smokers aren't even
Etiological factors in smoking are youth and people with low levels of education and SES, and religion. Cigarette smoking is popular amongst youth due the pressure to seem older. Smoking is seen as a way amongst youth to identify how “cool” once is. However smoking has fallen in youth from 18 to 24 year old by nearly a third over the past decade according to CDC data, but this is due to the growing use of e-cigarettes and hookahs. Individuals with a low level of education and SES tend to smoke at higher rates due to being used as a stress reliever in times of economic hardships.
Statistics show that 3 out of 4 under age kids that try to buy cigarette get away with it though, in America it is illegal to sell cigarettes to kids under the age of 18 though most stores do. The average age a kid starts smoking at fourteen and a half, but if your don't start by the age of 19 you'll probably never start. Over an alarming 3000 under age kids/per day start smoking. One out of three under age kids die from smoking. Most kids say they like to smoke because it,"Calms their Nerves","Tastes good", or "Because everyone I hand out with does it." Seven out of ten high school seniors with they had never started because it is so hard to quit. Cigarette company's spend over 6 billion dollars a
Many people smoke in the United States and in every hour fifty one people die due to smoking which is about one person every minute. Even though smoking is bad it helps the government and the people. Smoking doesn’t kill a person it does more than that. It changes your appearance, health, and affects the people around you. Many people should understand that smoking is not good for their health. One should consider the consequences of smoking. Every time a person smokes they are just pulling the trigger to kill themselves.
The first reason that smoking should be banned is because it affects people’s appearance. It causes premature aging and wrinkling of the skin on the hands and face, which is where the cigarette, chew, pipe etc. is at all
Let’s start off with the background of smoking. Tobacco has been used ever since 5000 BC in the Peruvian Andes. Moving on to more recent times, James Bonsack invented smoking in 1865. Commercials about smoking were made that year. In 1881, Bonsack invented the cigarette-making machine, popularizing smoking. Cigarettes were mostly sold to men in World War 1 & 2. By 1944, 300 billion cigarettes were being produced per year. In 1964, the Surgeon General of the U.S. said that cigarettes had nicotine in them and caused lung cancer, which made big-box companies put,"Cigarettes may be hazardous to your health." However, this didn’t stop everyone from smoking.