Smoking
"Each year throughout the world, the tobacco industry kills some 3 million of its best customers- equivalent to 20 loaded jumbo jets daily"(Peto et al. 47). And the worst is yet to come. Given present trends, estimated a 1994 World Health Organization report, half a billion people alive today will be killed by tobacco. A teen-to-the-grave smoker has a fifty percent chance of being killed by the habit and often dies an agonizing, premature death. So, with these odds wouldn't you think getting hooked can only be viewed as deeply dumb, or at least tragically naive, thing to do (even if you don't mind bad breath, yellowed teeth, and earlier wrinkles and graying)? "Smoke a cigarette and nature will charge you 12 minutes off your life expectancy"(Peto 98). Thus, the elimination of smoking would do more to increase life expectancy than would any other preventative measure. Smoking's destructiveness has prompted many scientists, psychologists, and researchers to study why people start! smoking, why they keep smoking, and how we might prevent smoking or help people to quit. In spite of all these reasons, with nicotine being so addictive and le
Although all of these facts and information might sound convincing enough to many people, it still does not induce all. Many will say "Shouldn't it be the people's choice whether they want to smoke or not?" Then if you want to look at it from that perspective, you can also say that it should be the people's choice to kill themselves. This law would not only be put into practice because of health reasons, but also moral reasons. In the same way that people should have the right to kill themselves by smoking, people should have the right to not want to receive the damage they do to their lungs from second hand smoke. If you are not addicted to nicotine, you would actually find this essay to have some truth and some helpful information as well. And maybe in the future you might support this proposition. If you are addicted to nicotine you probably have not reached this far in the essay. If you have, you are probably thinking one of two things. One, "This is the most stupid thing I have ever heard of!", or two, "I really am killing myself!". Whether or not you are thinking about number one or two, I would just encourage you to stop doing two things. One, stop killing yourself. And two, stop killing other
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Approximate Word count = 816
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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