Cigarette Bans

Cigarette Bans

Dorothy, a 75 year old smoker lives an unhappy and miserable life from the lasting effects of smoking. Like Dorothy, every living species is affected by cigarettes in some negative way. In hopes to decrease the everlasting effects of cigarettes and ban must be put in place. Cigarettes should be banned because they are economically unstable, are health hazards to the environment, and cause serious health issues.

Notably, tobacco companies created many jobs in accordance to the popularity of smoking in the first mass production years. With technology advancing, however jobs have been replaced my machines and contribute to unemployment rates throughout the country. According to information from Corpwatch,"Over the past decade and a half, however, even as cigarette production rose both manufacturing and farming jobs have been replaced. For example, the number of tobacco farms declined by 23 percent between 1985 and 1992." Not only have jobs been lost due to the convenience of machines, but because the majority of smokers are attempting to quit in fear of future complications caused by smoking.

Additionally, taxes pose an issue toward the national debt and the cigarette users as well. Taxes have raised on cigarettes because of the national government

"Smoking bans function as a petty form of paternalism, treating adults like children who cannot be trusted to make responsible decisions about their own health or well-being of those around them," Authors Lee and Newton assert. This is not entirely true, however. Many adults lack the ability to make the mature and overall more appropriate decision when it comes to when and where to smoke because of a self centered mind, only thinking of themselves. Smoking is not only a selfish decision, but it is a destructive one as