Jake Gibbs
Dr. David Lenoir
10/26/2017
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.
Smoking causes your immune system to become obsolete. Cilia in your lungs are supposed to filter out the bad viruses, dust, and other germs that keep you from getting colds. Every time you puff on a cigarette, you scar those cilia making getting sick easier and easier.
Smoking is time consuming. Taking precious time away from family and friends, not to mention the endless mounds of money that people take out of pocket to spend on some cancer sticks. ‘’Almost every half hour a smoker smokes a cigarette, so if you are awake for no more than sixteen hours, that’s thirty two cigarettes,’’ and usually it takes five to six minutes to smoke. Not only is it taking your life away it is taking your family’s life and love for you away as well. To see them always in a haze due to the fact that they are more worried about their next cigarette than loved ones. Time is a huge factor, but what about money? If you regularly smoke one pack a day, you annually spend around $2,000. With time comes several other factors that contribute to the destruction that cigarettes cause, loved ones are impacted along with personal health. All this research is being done to prove that cigarettes are bad. Why not stop? Smoking near or around impressionable adolescents is the worst because kids don’t know any better. Mothers who choose to smoke while pregnant put unborn babies at risk for a multitude of allergies, asthma and low birth weight. ‘’For babies eighteen months and younger, secondhand smoke is responsible for 150,000 to 300,000 new cases of bronchitis and pneumonia annually.’’ That is common if not expected with the thousands of different chemicals packed in them. If people knew some of the components to these disgusting things they wouldn’t be very proud as a human being that we actually smoke these fowl things.
A study led by Giovanni Invernizzi from the Tobacco Control Unit of the National Cancer Institute, found that air pollution coming from cigarettes is ten times greater than diesel car exhaust. Friends of mine have parents that smoke inside their house and as soon as I walk inside I can immediately notice the differences in the air quality and health of the individuals living inside the estate. Listening to the frequent coughing combined with the permanent smell of smoke disgust me and I have decided not to stay over there for the sake of my health. I get the same disgust as I am shopping in public and frequently see cigarette butts being littered on the ground. Cigarettes create nothing but waste in the environment, and by discontinuing the sale of cigarettes we could place an end to cigarette pollution in our beautiful
If a product kills million of consumer would we keep it out in the market? If an industry is costing the federal government 955 billion dollars would we keep subsidizing it? If there is a group of the work force that could be using their skills to aid in the hundreds of other areaas that they could be helping why wouldn’t we take action already? In 1920 the United States Government decided that the consumption, production and transportation of alcohol had enough of a negative effect on the nation as a whole that they banned liquor all together. The same action should be taken with the consumption, faming, distribution and even the possession of tobacco and cigarettes. Cigarettes should be banned because they have a countless amount of health consequences, tobacco farmers cost the federal government billion to bail them out instead of reinvesting that money to aid in really any other are of farming that is struggling, and lastly because of the environmental impact and footprint that the growing of tobacco and manufacturing of cigarettes produces.
Cigarettes and other tobacco products should be made illegal because of the economic effects, addictive properties, secondhand smoke, and can lead to disease and/or death.
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. Although millions die from it each year, smoking is the single most preventable cause of death as well. Without smoking, a tremendous amount of money and lives will be saved. I think that our country should ban smoking and the production of cigarettes in order to maintain a healthier nation, help save the environment, and prevent the almost 1000 deaths that they cause in fires each year.
This year alone cigarettes will end up killing over 500,000 Americans, and many more will suffer from different types of cancer, circulatory, and respiratory system diseases, due to smoking cigarettes. Cigarettes have been known to cause these illnesses for a long time. The FDA has proven that nicotine, one of the main chemicals in cigarettes, is addictive. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though they are aware of the health dangers that come from smoking cigarettes. Researchers have also found out that when people smoke by pregnant women it causes the deaths of over 4,000 babies and 110,000 miscarriages. The only way to prevent death by cigarettes would be to ban them.
Smoking does effect your lung. All the smoke people know smoking is affect their lung. If they still keep smoking, their lung will get sick. People cannot really touch their lung, so they do
Smoking is the inhalation and exhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco. Historically, it was thought that smoking was harmless, but more modern, clinical and laboratory research proves that it is, in fact, extremely dangerous. Tobacco cigarettes should be illegal in the United States due to their plethora of negative effects on the population and the environment. If cigarettes were banned, the country would be a much better place. Pollution, diseases and fatalities would dramatically decrease, while productivity, financial stability and overall health would increase.
Tobacco takes over 450,000 lives each year. Smoking tobacco can cause more death than alcohol and drug use combined and multiplied by two and it is still less than smoking. Smoking can harm you by taking your life. Smoking can harm others by second hand smoking and smoking takes so much money out of your pocket! Smoking should be stopped before it takes more lives and possibly your own!
Every year the US government passes numerous laws to protect its citizens. Yet, they still fail to protect its citizens from the leading cause of death in America. Although they work to protect the citizens they continue to ignore the most preventable death in America. The culprit responsible for these deaths is the cigarette. The impact that cigarettes make on a human is awful and there should be no reason why it is legal. Cigarettes should be banned because it is one of the harm fullest drugs around that is still legal. Cigarettes not only affect ones health but it affects the environment, economy and others around them.
Smoking cigarettes causes more deaths than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, and firearm- related incidents combined. Some people say that banning cigarettes would be bad because the government makes a lot of money from the tax revenues. Or that it would increase illegal trade. But based off of the fact that millions of people die each year, cigarettes should be banned because it causes many health issues, it affects a lot of people, and it costs the government a lot of money.
Should cigarette smoking be banned for everyone in the United States? Why? Why not? Should those who chose their time smoking to relieve stress, personal enjoyment, or simply just because, have to lose their right to what makes them happy? Smoking tobacco products has been around for decades and in many different forms. Should personal rights be pushed aside to please those around us that disagree with the so called “disgusting habit”? In the paper The Washington Times an article caught my interest called”D.C. seeks bans on smoking in national parks” written by Steven Dinan. In this article he stated that “Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton wrote Park Service Regional Director Steve Whitesell saying she’s heard from constituents who fear
Everybody has their own opinions when it comes to banning cigarettes all around America. If you smoke, you usually have a different opinion then those who don’t smoke cigarettes, but it’s something that does need to be taken control of and stopped. It isn’t only a nasty addiction, but its threatening people’s lives, and even those lives of the ones who don’t smoke. It isn’t okay to let minors get cigarettes, or put yourself in the position of getting a disease or dying, so why keep smoking in America and let this awful addiction take control of your life?
Today people are debating on whether or not we should ban tobacco products. Productions and sales of tobacco need to be banned because they only cause harm. The text states,” Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year”(U.S. department of health and human services ). This illustrates that thousands of people die each year from smoking. Tobacco products should be banned because it causes addiction, health problems, and harms others.
If you had the chance to save your own life, or even the lives of everyone around you, would you take it? Choosing to light another cigarette is choosing to commit another murder and taking another stab at your lungs. Smoking is the cause of one in five deaths each year in the United States alone. Since cigarettes can be considered a mass murder, they should be banned. They are dangerous to smokers and everybody around them, and that makes them vulnerable to secondhand smoke. Smokers are more prone to have high cholesterol due to damaged blood vessel walls and abnormal heart rhythms. They also lead to plaque buildup in the arteries. Cigarettes are not called cancer sticks for no reason. Smoking makes you more prone to heart attacks and
What if you were to live in a place where our government debts weren’t severe? What about living in a world with a cleaner atmosphere? Would you want to have excessive Carbon Dioxide and other harmful chemicals in the air? Smoking, one of the leading cause of pollution and death, affects us as humans and can cause extremely bad habits. These types of harmful effects applies to our lives and society and many wish for a better, cleaner, and healthier place. But with one easy solution that is beneficial to many, it can happen. Smoking should be banned because it harms the environment, affects our body in a negative way, and is a burden to our economy.