Smoking : A Ban On Tobacco

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.

It causes cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia” (Anonymous, nd, para. 6). Several hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent every year on the treatment of cancer due to smoking.

Spending money on smoking is too much and leads to nothing, and there are no benefits that people can get from smoking. Smoking can hit personal finances and smokers are burning their money for no reason. Instead of using money to get cigarettes, people can donate to non-government organizations to wipe out poverty and change people’s lives. Smoking is a major factor that is destroying the environment. Smoking cigarettes is bad for the air. People who do not smoke have to breathe the bad air around the smokers. Smoking needs to be banned in public to let other people breathe the fresh air. Most Americans are exposed to outdoor and indoor air that can cause cancer and other serious health problems. Smoking is a serious problem that needs to be taken care of. If we want a strong environment, clean environment, and a good public health, we need to ban smoking once and for all.

When somebody smokes cigarettes they increase their risk for lung cancer dramatically, they are “15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke” according to the CDC. When somebody inhales cigarette smoke they are inhaling over 7,000 toxic chemicals into their body. One of the main things these chemicals do is build up tar in your lungs. This tar stops your lungs from being able to clean themselves out of any germs that get in them. This leads to mucus building up in your lungs and airways making it much harder to breath and causing inflammation. Also the chemicals inside a cigarette can cause regular cells to turn into cancer cells. This doesn't just happen in your lungs, cigarettes can cause cancer throughout your entire body. Such as mouth, esophagus, stomach, colon, rectum, liver, pancreas, voicebox (larynx), trachea, bronchus, kidney and renal pelvis, urinary bladder, and cervix, and causes acute myeloid leukemia. But that fact is you don't even need to smoke cigarettes for these health problems to arise. “Second hand smoke in responsible for 41,000 of the 480,000 deaths in the U.S”. (CDC). This means people who might not want anything to do with cigarettes are dying because of someone else's habit. That is a horrible thing and the government should step in so more people do

With the changing of times, many places over the years have gone smoke free. Some of these places include: hospitals, airplanes, restaurants, bars, universities, schools, hotels and many others. One of the places in Anchorage that has recently gone smoke free is the University of Anchorage Alaska. According to an article titled “History of Smoke and Tobacco-Free UAA” (n.d.), “With the new policy, UAA joins more than 1,500 colleges and universities in the U.S. that are smoke or tobacco free.” This policy was voted for and created by students to positively influence the health of students and faculty in the University System and to decrease the amount of secondhand smoke. According to an article titled “UAA Smoke and Tobacco-Free” (n.d.), “The new smoke and tobacco-free policy encourages health and safety and promotes a supportive environment that helps those who want to quit and prevents young people from smoking and using tobacco in the first place.” UAA officially became a smoke free campus November 17, 2015 during the Great American Smokeout, and has provided resources for quitting. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014) states “Smokefree laws and policies have been proven to reduce the incidence of heart attacks and other coronary events among people younger than 65 years of age, and evidence suggests that there could be a relationship between such laws and policies and a reduction in cerebrovascular

The tobacco industry kills more people in North America from Monday to Thursday of each week than the terrorists murdered in total on September 11, 2001. That sounds unrealistic, doesn’t it? Well, smoking is an epidemic that affects us all, whether you are a smoker or you aren’t. In order to stop this epidemic, we need to

People may argue that because every pack of cigarettes contains a high tax, then it is benefiting the economy by giving the government more money. Although this may be true, our economy is also struggling because of smokers. Furthermore, medical bills have to be paid when a smoker gets lung cancer and has to get treatment. While smokers may be giving the government a larger amount of tax money every year, they also increase the medical bills and cause their job companies to lose money. According to an anti-smoking campaign, studies show that medical costs decreased in a six month period. In this article, “Anti-smoking Drive To Cut Health Costs”, Darren Gray mentions that in 1997 the estimated health-care savings were more than $24 million. He later analyzes that “The savings were attributed to a reduction in the incidence of lung cancer, heart disease and strokes - but could be even greater because the analysis did not include the effects of passive smoking”. This just proves that even though buying cigarettes gives the government more tax money, it also decreases the government’s money for people who have health insurance and need that money to pay for lung cancer treatments. If cigarettes were to become illegal, not as many people would continue to buy them, because they do not want to commit crimes; therefore, leading to less medical issues related to tobacco smoke.

Tobacco companies make nearly $1 million every hour a day or $24 million a day. Tobacco has been around for centuries, as far back as the american indians. Tobacco was one of the first crops grown for money. The amount of pollution and harm the tobacco and cigarette companies cause every year is alarming. Tobacco is hurting the country through pollution, cancer causing chemicals, and debris of tobacco products. “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation” (Proctor). Cigarettes are harmful to everyone, including the environment, and anyone near a cigarette smoker or someone who abuses tobacco. If tobacco companies do not slow or stop producing harmful products like cigarettes and cigars then they will

Frequently, death, doom and destruction are what come to people’s minds when cigarettes come to mind. I have personally witnessed the evils of smoking, some of them being small and others large. Problems anywhere from respiratory problems to severe health crises and even mortality can occur.

Smoking cigarettes has been a huge public health issue in America for many years. They should be banned for they’ve caused many people their lives. The United States government along with other countries like the UK have moved towards a ban on cigarette smoking in public places. Defender of this approach argue that smoking cigarettes cause health risks for non-smokers. This may lead to a major economic consideration for Tobacco is the second major cause of mortality in the world. “[Tobacco] imposes a terrible toll in health, lives and dollars on families, business and government. Tobacco kills more than 400,000 people annually — more than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined.”

Smoking does many horrible things to the human body that most people are not aware of. Smoking can cause cancer, heart disease, and can even shorten a person 's life by 10 years or more. Each cigarette contains a highly addictive chemical known as nicotine, but thats not the only chemical that is found in a cigarette. There are 4,000 known toxic chemicals found in a single cigarette. Some of these toxins include: ammonia, benzene, and carbon monoxide. Due to the nicotine found in cigarettes, this makes smoking an extremely hard habit to break. The nicotine is known to reduce tension and it is also believed that it can

Cigarettes have caused noxiousness to society and the economy for the past twenty years. They’re not causing a detriment to just the people who proceed to use them, but to those who are around it as well. Cigarettes have bounteous accouterments on active smokers, and even have immense long-term holdings on nonsmokers. The entryway that causes effects for active smokers is called ‘mainstream smoke’ and the results for nonsmokers is called ‘secondhand smoke’. Second hand smoke is just as destructive as smoking and leads to a higher prevalence of cancer and heart disease, causing it to be crippling for anybody around a smoker.

On Feb 6, 2001, Government of India announced a bill banning Tobacco Companies from advertising their products and sponsoring sports and cultural events. The objective was to discourage adolescents from consuming tobacco products and also arm the Government with powers to launch an anti-Tobacco Program.

The costs of smoking are worse than you imagined. Furthermore the amount of money spent on careless smoking is about six billion dollars a year. The united states also spend one hundred billion dollars a year on smoking related illnesses. For instance, you are going to pay up to one thousand dollars extra a year for life insurance. You will pay more in health insurance not just life insurance. Equally important, you will also pay more homeowners insurance along with the others (Cross). The amount of money you pay a year is enormous too, like a pack a day habit costs 2,190 dollars just buying cigarettes . For those who think a pack a week is better it is but not that much better it is like three hundred and twenty dollars just for

In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that 16.8% of the population were smokers in the United States down from 42.4% in 1965, the first year the CDC started tracking that figure (“Trends in Current Cigarette Smoking Among High School Students and Adults, United States, 1965–2014” cdc.gov). Smoking bans are partially to thank in addition to education efforts for the plummeting number of smokers in this country, however, smoking bans in public parks should have no part in the effort to end tobacco dependency. Smoking bans in US public parks should be illegal because it would be extremely difficult to enforce, it limits individual liberties and ostracizes people, and the negative health impact to others outdoors is