and many more will suffer from cancers, and circulatory and

respiratory system diseases. These horrible illnesses were known to

originate from cigarettes for years, and recently nicotine, the main

chemical additive in cigarettes, was declared addictive by the Food

and Drug Administration. This explains why smokers continue to use

cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the constantly warned

about health dangers in cigarettes. Although smokers constitute the

majority of people who suffer from cigarettes, they are not the only

ones ailing from cigarette smoke. As UC San Francisco scientist and

author Stanton Glantz estimates in Shari Roan's article, the amount

of second-hand smoke inhaled by the typical nonsmoker is equivalent to

one cigarette smoked per day. Even that amount of cigarette

smoke can damage a person's heart. Some

researchers have also concluded that smoking by pregnant women

causes the deaths of over 5,000 babies and 115,000

miscarriages. The only way to terminate the suffering and loss of

life brought upon by cigarettes exists as a complete proscription

dependence it creates in the user. Since cigarettes fit in the array

by the Food and Drug Administration, which explains why many smokers

billion; families could save money by not purchasing cigarettes; and

smokers to quit smoking because of its addictive nature, and with the

by Lonnie Bristow M.D. of the American Medical Association at her

Opponents to the banning of cigarettes base their arguments on

cigarettes many fights will be fought, but eventually cigarettes will

of....[cigarette] smoke are having greater effects on the non smoker's

physiological dependence they develop, chiefly imputable to its

the level of nicotine cigarettes contain. As we near a complete ban on

an addiction." Nicotine engenders it almost impossible for cigarette

be planted. The benefits of outlawing cigarettes greatly outnumber the

scientific evidence continues to accumulate that says there is this

are affected by cigarette smokers. Of those who do not smoke 53,000

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