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Cigarette Analysis

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Throughout the years we have considered if cigarettes should be legal or not. Many people believe cigarettes are a bad product for people, that only causes issues to our bodies. In the other side, cigarettes help the economy stay in balance and it also provides tax revenue, which is use for different state programs, such Medical, school funds, food, and housing assistance services for the poor. Cigarettes have helped the U.S. Government in many ways and give people a hobby. Tax revenue from cigarettes is good for different funds. Tax revenue is being use for helping poor people and pays medical services.In a 2013 study from history and headlines revealed that U.S. Government collected $43.9 billion in tobacco tax revenue and over half a trillion …show more content…

Another reason why people are against cigarettes is because cigarettes are causing big increases in fires disasters, which has cost over $27 billion yearly to the government. However these type of people do not know that cigarette companies do not force people to smoke, and even if they did, smokers are warned not to smoke says in a pack of cigarettes. These people also don't know that if cigarettes were illegal government would be losing about 20% of tax revenue, which is around $260 million dollars.
Lastly, cigarettes should be legal to not take people's freedom away. People have the right to chose whether if they want to smoke or not. In the U.S. we are facing many other problems worse than smoking that is causing violence, murder, mental and physical disorders. For example, a recent study made by WIRED has defined that America will be facing a big overwhelmingly obese by 2030. This problem will make a huge impact to the community, for the reason it would make increase the health care costs by s much as $66 billion. This is a bad problem that we would be facing a couple of years from

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