Do Tobacco Companies Need To Stop Smoking?

The number of people smoking has increased in the past few years and it should stop. It is a personal choice to smoke or not but the amount of people it affects is not acceptable. Smokers chose to subject themselves to health risks. People that smoke in public areas set a bad example for not only teenagers or adults but to kids as well. Teens are hooked on tobacco every day. They do not realize that trying cigarettes makes it worse and it leads to a lifelong addiction. The tobacco companies do not want you to know that they want you to think it is cool so their company could increase. Children are easily influenced by their growing stages. Therefore, they perceive the actions they see around them as the way things should be. Besides that, teens who see people smoke in public take it as a precedent to start smoking as …show more content…
The amount of damage it does to the person and people around them is too great to ignore. Smoking kills over 430,000 people in the United States and costs those thousands of dollars in health care for smoking-related medical issues (celebden). Although health care for smokers also cost the government, millions they refuse to ban the easily addictive drug from the hands of civilians. It is also important to outlaw cigarettes because not only will it save thousands of smoker’s lives but also it will keep the people around them safe from their bad decisions. Nicotine is a drug found in tobacco, it is addictive as heroin and cocaine. It only takes about 8 seconds for it to reach the brain (Arundel). Teens can experience tobacco dependence within a day of inhaling, including strong urges to some, anxiety or irritability. Public smoking should become an illegal drug in the United States because it affects our environment, it increases health risk, and it increases the cost of health and life insurance. Overall, extracting this addictive drug from society will improve the health and benefit our citizens and our