According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in this year, $25.3 billion will be collected from tobacco taxes and legal settlements. At first glance it seems a huge amount of money that the country can lose if the government of the United States prohibits the production and sale of cigarettes, this is a mistake. In fact the United States will lose much more money if cigarettes are still be available to the people. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the United States has to spend billions of dollars each year because of the tobacco use. To be precise $193 billion are spend each year includes $97 billion in lost productivity and $96 billion in health care expenditures. Moreover according to the same source more than $10 billion is a second smoke costs, it also includes health care expenditures, morbidity, and mortality. You do not have to be an outstanding mathematician to calculate the difference between the profit and costs because it can be seen …show more content…
Everyone since childhood knows that smoking is a bad thing because of the many medical reasons but as we see unfortunately there are some people who do not want to take this issue seriously. Probably while you are reading this paper dozens of people are already dead because of cigarettes, which is sad. People should be more responsible for their health and health of their loved ones until it is too