Every cigarette that a person smokes reduces their life span by eleven minutes. Banning the sale of tobacco products would prevent many deaths. Not only would it prevent death of the ones that use tobacco products but also for the ones that are exposed to second hand smoke. People who are addicted to tobacco products spend a lot of money on their habit. The use of tobacco products and being exposed to second hand smoke will later lead to many health problems and possibly death. The sale of tobacco products should be banned because people are wasting their money by buying them, it causes many health problems that could lead to death, and it not only affects the one using it but it also affects the people around them. The average cost for a pack of cigarettes is $5.50. A person who smokes one pack a day spends $38.50 a week. That adds up to $154.00 a month or $1,848 a year. If a person smokes two packs a day that person would be spending $77 a week or $308 per month which adds up to $3696 a year. If a can of chewing tobacco cost $4 and the person uses a can a …show more content…
Second hand smoke contains more than seven thousand chemicals. More than seventy are toxins that can cause cancer. Second hand smoke can cause respiratory problems, stroke, and even lung cancer. A person that is exposed to second hand smoke are increasing their risks of lung cancer by 20% - 30%. Second hand smoke also increases the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Second hand smoke can hurt an infant’s brain and can interfere with their breathing. (“Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke”, 2014) Second hand smoke can also affects pets. Pets exposed to second hand smoke are at risk of developing lung cancer. Cats who are exposed to second hand smoke are at risk of developing oral cancers because cats groom themselves and carcinogens from the second hand smoke can build up on their fur. (“Smokefree Pets.”
There needs to be a policy to ban cigarettes, it kills the smoker, in addition, could kill the person exposed to the smoke from cigarettes. “The cigarette is also a defective product, meaning not just dangerous but unreasonably dangerous, killing half its long-term users” (Proctor), cigarettes are not healthy in any way making it a defective product, it mainly kills the smoker rather than helping them. It was produced to be inhalable smoke harming anyone who smokes them making it a defect because in the past the tobacco was too harsh to be inhaled. The policy would help cigarette smokers, especially since they don’t even like the habit of smoking cigarettes, knowing it harms them.
Cigarette business has now sprung from a small shop to a very large corperation. Cigarette businesses are not just a business now, it is considered to be a money machine. It is a huge industrial business around the world providing many jobs and creating massive revenue. So many people are put at risk to these businesses directly and indirectly. The owners and workers of the tobacco companies both take this as their source of primary income. They can easily support their family through this business if the businesses aren 't hoarding all revenue for themselves. Producing cigarettes has become one of the most profitable business, not to mention one of the biggest industries in the whole world. The government receives huge amounts of money from cigarette companies from the taxes they pay alone. Cigarette use is in the workplace of many people around the world. Though many people can be benefited through this business it is not worth what comes from cigarette use. The government is getting huge sums of money from the sale and distribution of cigarettes. So, making the same and manufacturing of cigarettes illegal will definitely hurt the government and add pressures to many people who are in need of a job or looking for one. As a result, through this business, it creates a source of income for the workers and owners of companies big and small. But some people may argue that the physical health risks from smoking, financial as well as social risks occur along with this. A person, who smokes on a regular basis also may spend a majority of his money on buying cigarette or other tobacco products. The average pack of cigarettes costs the consumer four dollars per pack. Annually , that would cost a person an average of 1500 dollars at least for cigarettes . When the person is hospitalized due to use of cigarettes, his medical expenses
Cigarettes have become a national icon, as big as the likes of cooperating giants such as Coca-Cola, as people are familiar with the idea of smoking from such a young age, becoming so addicted and subservient to seeing the act as normalcy in modern day America. Therefore certain solutions are needed to, at the very least, help make this icon less harmful to this country’s health. Both online articles, “Are Herbal and ‘Natural’ Cigarettes Safer?” by Ennis Thompson Jr.’s and “Marlboro Introduces Vitamin-Infused Cigarettes” by The Daily Currant argue that the so called “healthy” or “natural” cigarettes actually have a few health benefits and are only just a way to slow down the dangers of smoking. The Daily Currant makes a valid argument through
In the world that surrounds the human race every day, debates about cigarettes are ongoing. Many think that cigarettes should be banned and made illegal just as heroin was. On the contrary, giving up old habits such as smoking can be hard to accomplish and is fought otherwise. The truth is that with every drug there’s a cost that must be paid, although cigarettes are more settled, the life threatening effects cause cancer, heart disease and death.
Experiencing the death of a loved one is never easy, especially when the cause is something self-inflicted, such as cigarettes. Imagine if that loved one was your parent or even worse, your own child. Now, imagine watching the demise and physical incapacities that transpire while you see them deteriorate right in front of you. Feel the anger that would coarse through your veins if you were to see an add that glamorized such deadly instruments, particularly once you realize that the areas being marketed are lower class. Cigarettes are legal killers that cripple many individuals and families alike. They are a highly addictive substance that benefit no one. I am against cigarettes in every capacity as I have dealt with the effects of it on a personal level. Cigarettes leave a distaste in the mouth literally and figuratively. I am also a firm believer that
Smoking is not only affect for the smoker’s health, but also others around the smoker. People who do not smoke are affect just as much as those who are smoking. Which is due to second hand smoke, as the toxin smoke release in the air. Second hand smoke is harmful to non- smoker and causes more damage to their lung from breathing it. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “When a nonsmoker breathes in secondhand smoke, the body begins to metabolize or break down the nicotine that was in the smoke. During this process, a nicotine byproduct called cotinine is created. Exposure to nicotine and secondhand smoke can be measured by testing saliva, urine, or blood for the presence of cotinine.” According to "Surgeon General Adds To List of Smoking's Harms." “About 20.8 million people in the U.S. have died from smoking-related diseases since then, a toll the report puts at 10 times the number of Americans who have died in all of the nation's wars combined. M...
This year alone cigarettes will kill over 420,000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and respiratory system diseases. These horrible illnesses were known to come from cigarettes for years. Recently the Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical in cigarettes, addictive. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned about health dangers in cigarettes. Some researchers have also found out that smoking by pregnant women causes the deaths of over 5,000 babies and 115,000 miscarriages. The only way to get rid of the suffering and loss of life by cigarettes is to ban them. . For years cigarettes have been known to cause cancer, emphysema, and other horrible illnesses. The deaths of over 420,000 of Americans this year will be do to cigarettes. With all the other causes of deaths, alcohol, illegal drugs, AIDS, suicide, transportation accidents, fires, and guns, cigarettes still count for more deaths than those do combined. We can’t stand and watch people die because they smoke cigarettes. Thousands of smokers try to rid themselves of cigarettes but can't because of additive nicotine. Nicotine was recently declared addictive by the Food and Drug Administration, which explains why many smokers continue to smoke despite the health warnings on cigarette smoking. Nicotine makes it almost impossible for cigarette smokers to quit smoking because of its addictive nature, and with the cigarette manufacturers putting just enough nicotine in the so they cant be outlawed. The benefits of outlawing cigarettes greatly outnumber the disadvantages, for example, many scientists believe a link between smoking and a shortened life span exists between the two, a ban on cigarettes could increase life spans. Many studies suggest that billions of dollars now spent on smoking related. Smoking related illnesses could be reduced by outlawing cigarettes, families could save money by not purchasing cigarettes, and accidental fires costing millions of dollars caused by cigarettes would stop. Although a complete ban on cigarettes currently remains almost impossible, several organizations recently helped create a bill that could control cigarettes much in the same way the government now controls drugs. One such organization, the Food and Drug Administration, headed by David Kesslar drafted a major part, which would require manufacturers to disclose the 700 chemical additives in cigarettes, reduce the level of harmful chemicals, require cigarette companies to warn of the addictive nicotine, restrict tobacco advertising and promotion, and control the level of nicotine cigarettes contain.
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.
Accordingly, children that have a status from last year can be placed aside for a period of time and children that are new can be processed first. However, you receive a flood of applications all at once, these need to be sorted and corralled so they are are not lost. After my first day experiencing the flood of applications I thought about it on the way home and went to the dollar Store and I bought some simple plastic baskets and labeled one basket “NEW”, One “30 Days carryover”, another, waiting for call back and the last one “to be filed” this organizes the applications and keeps them all easily accessible. I know this sounds insanely easy, but there was not a system to controls these papers when I first came to work there and it was a madhouse trying to locate one particular application. With this system it’s far easier to locate and then communicate with parents calling back to provide missing
Although it is beneficial for the economy for the production of tobacco products it is extremely risky to use the product. According to researchers second-hand smoke is terrible for everyone in the world who walk by someone who is exhaling. In the article by Robert Proctor “Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition” he states that cigarettes are the “most deadl...
There are lots of harmful things in the world such as alcohol, drugs and cigarettes. Cigarettes are smoked and liked being smoked everywhere besides it is poisonous. Although smoking is harmful for people's life. Some people believe that smoking should not be banned. However, in my view, smoking should be banned since it damages people on account of three important reasons. They are health, social and budget problems.
One of the biggest problems that people are faced with on a day-to-day basis is cigarette smoke. The sole cause for 480,000 deaths each year just in the United States is accredit to cigarettes(CDC). For a lot of the smokers the habit of smoking happens to assist them when under stress and dealing with issues that are unmanageable. Some smoke to appeal to their peers or simply because it “feels good.” Smoking one cigarette can lead to a major addiction. The effects of smoking hurt oneself and those amongst us. Smoking Kills as the ad portrays this revolver and cigarettes as the bullets, and also lists the side effects of smoking. Cigarettes causes cancer, increases the risk of you getting a stroke, highly addictive and causes a lot of health problems. Nearly 16
People who suffer from secondhand smoke are prone to cardiovascular disease and lung cancer.How do these effects
Cigarettes are one of the most common killers known to mankind. Cigarettes kill about 6 million people every year, and that number isn’t going to go down in less we do something about it. Smoking in the twentieth century killed only 100 million people, whereas a billion could die in our century. There are several more reasons why we should ban cigarettes, and I am going list them.
Almost every year the American people pay altogether around 100 billion dollars in medical costs related to smoking (Obama, 2009). Tobacco products not only can hurt your wallet, but also can jeopardize your health with many different illnesses and diseases. Tobacco products alone contain over 5,000 toxins; acrolein and acetaldehyde are two of the