Ban the Cancer Sticks
Cancer, emphysema, asthma... death. What are all of those tragic health conditions associated with? No, not merely old age or even sucking on the exhaust pipe of a Buick, though the latter's not too far from the truth. The horrific reality is that everyday, everywhere in this country, people are lighting up cancer sticks. Cigarettes, as they are more generally called, are poisoning the nation with every wheeze-filled puff that anyone draws in and exhales. Smoking cigarettes is one of this nation's worst evils, yet is more acceptable than many less hazardous substances that are considered illegal. Cigarettes should be banned entirely from the United States because they kill not only the populace that smokes them, but innocent bystanders as well, are more addictive than marijuana or painkillers, and are produced and distributed by an industry that gains profit from millions of their customer's deaths.Second-hand smoke warnings swarm all aspects of the media in today's society, and with good reason. Anyone that believes they cannot be affected by smokers' habits is tragically mistaken. So maybe a guy standing at a crosswalk doesn't mind the fact that he's poisoning himself, but the mother waiting behi
Okay, this is America, the land of the free; smokers have the freedom to smoke. It has been known unofficially as the "right to smoke" in arguments over this matter of banning cigarettes. Right to smoke? What about the right to breathe clean air? In public places, more people don't smoke than those who do, and since there seems to be a basis on laws and rights when it comes to this issue, and this is a democracy... TAA-DAA the non-smokers would win this one. God bless the rights in America! At home, in private, it's okay to smoke though, some would think. A smoker should still have that right, right? Well, again going to the government of America and its laws, suicide is illegal. That includes poisoning; ingesting chemicals that kill the human body slowly, which seems like suicide and in a court of law, could be confirmed. When it comes to a "right to smoke," it's great to live in such democratic society where the people make the laws; maybe a ban on cigarettes should be next on the lists. Big business is part of America and tobacco companies are some of the biggest businesses, but they make their money from the suffering of others. When anybody buys a pack of cigarettes, they are supporting a series of corporations that gain profits from dealing death to the people of America. Here's how it works: tobacco companies lose thousands of customers each year... because they die. So every day they need about 3,000 new smokers, and they look to the kids (3,000). Have those capitalists realized that it's morally unjust to market lethal, addictive substances to kids? Yes, but as long as the money keeps rolling in, the lives of their customers don't matter. Buying a pack of cigarettes is simply feeding the monster that is the tobacco industry. Before the lungs of a smoker are affected, their wallet is: approximately $4.00 for a pack of twenty. Let's do the math on that one! Twenty cents per cancer stick, a pack each day... Smoking costs $1, 460 per year, but don't worry because a bonus gift comes with that; it's called lung cancer, or a few lucky individuals can spend almost fifteen hundred bucks a year for asthma. Tobacco companies profit from death and poor health. Being paid for thousands of murde
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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