How To Prevent Smoking Persuasive Essay

Tobacco has recently been monitored closer in the past decade than ever before. New laws and regulations have been made such as where people can smoke and what goes into cigarettes. The reason for the government regulating these tobacco products are because we are learning just how dangerous it can be. In the last fifty years health risks from tobacco has been on the rise. Tobacco is linked to many diseases, and cancers, and can have harmful long-term effects on people’s health. In the book Merchants of Doubt, Oreskes and Conway even mention how secondhand smoke is a hazardous to peoples health that do not even smoke, and how the government needs to regulate that part of tobacco smoke too. (Oreskes & Conway, 2010) The evidence to how harmful tobacco smoke can be is out there some people just choose not to listen or simply think these dangers will not happen to them. Tobacco counts for every one in five deaths in the United States, which adds up to be about 480,000 …show more content…
I think because climate change is not an issue that we hear about and see everyday it doesn’t come to mind as often as other issues do. Climate changed is not talked about in our era like gun control, and terrorism is. Another reason I think we do not focus on climate change is because the fix for it is one that would take a lot of time and effort. Climate change also does not directly affect my health or me right away so it is an after thought in my mind. Another reason I think people do not worry about climate control is because they think if anything happens because of it, it will be long after they are gone. Climate change will always continue to be an issue if we do not do something about it, and the reason we are worried about it in the future is because that’s when it will affect us and when we will see direct result of climate