Challenge

Reasons why smoking should be banned. 1. It is the most deadly object in the world Cigarettes kill about 6 million people every year and is the #1 cause of preventable death in the U.S., causing over 393,000 deaths per year. That's a bigger number of deaths than those caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, and firearm-related incidents combined together! Even if present rates of consumption steadily decline to zero by 2100, we will still have about 300 million tobacco deaths this century. The cigarette is also a defective product, being incredibly addictive with its nicotine, and having approximately 600 ingredients that when burned, they create more than 7,000 chemicals. At least 70 are known to cause cancer in people or animals, and people who smoke are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke, even if they smoke only a few times per day. The cancers of the lung, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, stomach, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, and cervix, as well as acute myeloid leukemia are all possible outcomes of smoking. Smoking can also cause heart disease and stroke. 2. It affects other people Cigarettes can contribute to second-hand smoking, which causes 50,000 deaths each year! Even if the smoker doesn't care about the chemicals in their body, other people care and still get innocently harmed! In the United States, two out of five adults who don't smoke and half of children are exposed to secondhand smoke, and about 3,000 people who never smoked die from lung cancer due to secondhand smoke every year. In addition, lung cancer is more likely to affect someone who has parents or siblings who smoke, as they are exposed to chemical that may cause this disease. 3. Even when not killing, it is harmful Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and diminishes a person"s overall health. Millions of Americans have health problems caused by smoking. Women in peticular are greatly effected, as the have these possible effects when pregnant: Preterm (early) delivery Stillbirth (death of the baby before birth) Low birth weight Sudden infant death syndrome (known as SIDS or crib death) Ectopic pregnancy Orofacial clefts in infants To stress this, the teeth is greatly affected as well, as the health of your teeth and gums are negatively impacted and can cause tooth loss. 4. It harms the economy Cigarette use also results in financial losses from diminished labor productivity, and in many parts of the world makes the poor even poorer. (Because, you know, dead people can't work!) Futhermore, cigarette industry is a powerful corrupting force in human civilisation. Big tobacco has corrupted science by sponsoring "distraction research". It has also corrupted popular media, as newspapers and magazines dependent on tobacco advertising for revenues have been reluctant to publish critiques of cigarettes. Tobacco corrupts even the information environment of its own workforce, as when Philip Morris paid its insurance provider (CIGNA) to censor the health information sent to corporate employees. In conclusion, smoking should be banned because of its negative effects. It doesn't have to be, but it should, throughout the world, so these negative effects are lessened. Even if we cannot stop people from smoking in private, we can stop it in major public areas where we can see them. Onto you, con! SOURCES -http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com...... -http://www.lung.org......; -http://www.cdc.gov......; -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov......; -http://www.cdc.gov......;