Smoking should be made illegal
Uploaded by momoelvine on Sep 12, 2015
Did you know that each year about 443,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to tobacco use? Did you also know that smoking kills more than alcohol, car, accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide and illegal drugs combined? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). One of the largest and most problematic health issues in our society is smoking. Smoking is currently the leading cause of death in our country, due to its harmful and addicting contents, such as nicotine and tobacco. Smoking is the act of inhaling and exhaling tobacco smoke through a cigarette or cigar. Despite smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress, the negative aspects of smoking outweigh the positive. The heart of this reasoning is the understanding that smoking has no redeeming qualities but even the best of circumstances are considered to have adverse effects on the smoker and those around them. Moreover, since smoking make smokers and nonsmokers ill, smoking is implicated in numerous deaths. Smoking costs lot money for consumers and medical expenses, as well as it is also an addicting drug. Smoking and the production of cigarettes should be made illegal in order to maintain a healthier nation. Without smoking a huge amount of money and lives will be saved.
Many reasons influenced the outcome of my opinion towards smoking becoming illegal. First of all cigarettes smoking are very deadly to smoker and increase the smoker’s chance for death. Although most smokers say that illegalizing smoking is an invasion of privacy, I think that illegalizing smoking will help to save smokers lives. The Centers for Disease and Prevention reports that 46, 6 million Americans age 18 years and older smoke. All of these people are losing about 12 years life, just by smoking. Drugs are bad for anyone who smokes them. Tobacco is a type of drug. Did you think that tobacco is just a dried plant wrapped in thin paper? Guess again. Tobacco contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals. At least hundred are toxic, and 70 at least can cause cancer (Centers for Disease and Prevention). Some of these chemicals include Benzene derived from coal & petroleum (the one we put in cars), formaldehyde (embalming fluid used to preserve dead bodies), arsenic (rat poisoning), butane (lighter fluid) and much more. Because of this deadly chemicals contain, smoking cause so many deaths as well as it lead...