Cigarettes Argumentative Essay

Up until the 1930’s scientist and doctors said Cigarettes were considered safe and, it was not until recently, nearly 85 years, later that scientist are truly beginning to understand the long term effects that cigarettes leave on the body. Presently the Center for Disease Control report that cigarettes cause over 480,000 per year. (CDC). In 2006 the government began place stricter and sticker punishments on the Tabaco companies forcing them to sponsor anti-smoking campaigns. To combat that tobacco companies began producing electronic cigarettes and they’ve taken off like wild fire. The CDC describes Electronic Cigarettes commonly calls E-Cigs as, “battery-operated devices designed to deliver nicotine with flavorings and other chemicals to users in vapor instead of smoke.” E-cigarette don’t actually contain Tabaco, which exempts them from any existing laws that regulate traditional cigarettes. E-cigs are technology that is in its infancy, and as a result need to be more heavily regulated and held to the same standards as traditional cigarettes.
Supporters for E-cigs are marketing them as a healthy alternative to traditional cigarettes on a commercial for V2 Cigarettes doctor Mathew Huebner implies that vaping is a harmless “as boiling water.” The issue with a blanket …show more content…
Tiny amounts, whether ingested or absorbed through the skin, can cause vomiting and seizures and even be lethal. A teaspoon of even highly diluted e-liquid can kill a small child.” (Cox, John Woodrow) How can a solution in its liquid state be potent enough to cause seizures vomiting and cardiac arrest, but, in its gaseous state be a harmless water? The answer is simple e-liquid in any state is