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Persuasive Essay Smoking

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To Ban Or Not To Ban Purchase a pack of cigarette, you don’t have to look very hard to see the graphic warnings written not on the inside on an insert, but on the outside in big bold letters. Some packages have very chilling graphics of how smoking can affect your health. Based on the severity of the effects of this product should there still be manufacturing and distribution of such a dangerous product? It should be banned. "Smoking Kills" one of the most common warnings seen on a box of cigarette. Despite this, the tobacco industry sold 253.8 billion cigarettes domestically in 2014 and sales continue to rise across the globe. Tobacco products are not only harmful to the user. Nonsmokers, unborn babies, the environment, and teenagers are all adversely affected by this product. Lets us look in depth at the main reason why it should not be in our stores and should be banned How are nonsmokers affected by second-hand smoking? Take into consideration what exactly is ‘Second Hand Smoking'. The Center for Disease Control refers to second-hand smoke as "the smoke exhaled or breathed out by smoker" it also went further to add that“Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and about 70 that can cause cancer”. Persons who live in low-income housing and have lesser educational backgrounds compared to those in the suburbs are less likely to be protected by the smoke-free laws. Proper ventilation will not protect an

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