Outlawed American Smokers
Tobacco was one of the first crops that made a lot of money because it helped pay for the American Revolution against England. Many people just chewed tobacco because it is smokeless and it didn’t affect people around them. It was also a stress reliever when it came to chewing tobacco. Cigarettes were created by James Bonsack in 1865, he mainly sold his hand rolled cigarettes to soldiers in the war. When James created the first cigarette-making machine in 1881 it went world wide and five years later one billion cigarettes were sold. This led to many other tobacco companies to create other brands of cigarettes. “Tobacco is now and days one of the most controversial businesses, especially in the last decades since the …show more content…
As quote “Cancer Sticks”, is what people normally call cigarettes in today’s society. In the Los Angeles Times newspaper a report was published by the (Journal of Medical Association), “28.8% of all cancer deaths in 2014 representing at least 167,133 people were related to smoking cigarettes. More than a third of those deaths occurred in California”. Imagine the entire world, cigarettes are like an epidemic once a person smokes one cigarette it leads to smoking a pack a day. Once the person starts smoking a pack a day, it leads to health complications. Health complications leads to lung cancer, and if the person does not catch it on time, the person could die and the death tolls just …show more content…
How could tobacco be legal when it’s killing people? How could people smoke a couple of cigarettes a day and know that it is slowly killing them? Many television commercials will have actual people that have suffered from a serious health condition due to smoking tobacco. An advertising company (The Real Cost) created a commercial called “Your Skin”. In the commercial the girl is trying to buy a pack of cigarettes, she doesn’t have enough money so she peels off her own skin as if she’s risking her own life just to smoke. Some commercials would have people that either have cancer, have lost a body part, or speak with the microphone against a hole in their throat. In the commercials it seems as if the person who is suffering can’t live a normal life because they were either pressured into smoking or followed in the footsteps of someone they
Tobacco was one of the first crops that made a lot of money because it helped pay for the American Revolution against England. Many people just chewed tobacco because it is smokeless and it didn’t affect people around them. It was also a stress reliever when it came to chewing tobacco. Cigarettes were created by James Bonsack in 1865, he mainly sold his hand rolled cigarettes to soldiers in the war. When James created the first cigarette-making machine in 1881 it went world wide and five years later one billion cigarettes were sold. This led to many other tobacco companies to create other brands of cigarettes. “Tobacco is now and days one of the most controversial businesses, especially in the last decades since the …show more content…
As quote “Cancer Sticks”, is what people normally call cigarettes in today’s society. In the Los Angeles Times newspaper a report was published by the (Journal of Medical Association), “28.8% of all cancer deaths in 2014 representing at least 167,133 people were related to smoking cigarettes. More than a third of those deaths occurred in California”. Imagine the entire world, cigarettes are like an epidemic once a person smokes one cigarette it leads to smoking a pack a day. Once the person starts smoking a pack a day, it leads to health complications. Health complications leads to lung cancer, and if the person does not catch it on time, the person could die and the death tolls just …show more content…
How could tobacco be legal when it’s killing people? How could people smoke a couple of cigarettes a day and know that it is slowly killing them? Many television commercials will have actual people that have suffered from a serious health condition due to smoking tobacco. An advertising company (The Real Cost) created a commercial called “Your Skin”. In the commercial the girl is trying to buy a pack of cigarettes, she doesn’t have enough money so she peels off her own skin as if she’s risking her own life just to smoke. Some commercials would have people that either have cancer, have lost a body part, or speak with the microphone against a hole in their throat. In the commercials it seems as if the person who is suffering can’t live a normal life because they were either pressured into smoking or followed in the footsteps of someone they