The Pros And Cons Of Smoking Cigarettes

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Smoking cigarettes has been around since the new world had been discovered Christopher Columbus was offered tobacco leaves by some Native Americans he had met. But since it had been invented no-one had known how deadly smoking tobacco really was until 1930 after the war when doctors noticed the increase in lung cancer. Since the cigarette industry started to become a multi million-dollar business they started to pay people not to talk and it took till the 80s before people believed it was the cancer causing agent. While on the other hand vape pens have been around relatively shorter. Vaping is better than smoking cigarettes because your life expectancy grows, the amount of money you save, and how it is less harmful than actual cigarettes. Cigarettes have many offspring’s like chew, snuff, and many other items all contributing to a …show more content…

There are many reasons cigarettes should be banned, but one of the major reasons it should be banned according to tobaccocontrol.com “The cigarette is the deadliest object in the history of human civilsation. Cigarettes kill about 6 million people every year, a number that will grow before it shrinks. Smoking in the twentieth century killed only 100 million people, whereas a billion could perish in our century unless we reverse course.” (Proctor 1). So based on this statistic alone this put a huge argument on why cigarettes should be banned. Vape pens otherwise known as E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices designed to deliver nicotine with flavorings and other chemicals to users in vapor instead of smoke. They can be manufactured to resemble traditional tobacco cigarettes, cigars or pipes. E-cigarettes are designed to

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