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    Smoking Should Be Illegal Does smoking personally affect the user? If the user answers no, then the user is wrong. It affects the user 's health even if the user do not smoke, Smoking also affects the place that the user lives; because it damages our environment. Even if the user is not around smoke on a daily basis, more than likely someone in the user family is, which means if they get sick from an illness of cigarettes, turns out this really does affect the user. How can something this…

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    smoke is known to cause cancer all around the world, second hand smoke is so dangerous because you don't have a filter unlike the person who is smoking the cigarette. So you being around someone who is smoking you are inhaling all of the bad chemicals that they aren't, you are harming the people around you more than yourself. Just like smoking, secondhand smoking causes cancer as well, in fact mostly all of the same cancers. Lung, breast, brain, stomach cancer etc. Not only does second hand…

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    illnesses. That is nearly 480,000 deaths every year. Secondhand smoke exposure causes 41,000 deaths a year among nonsmoking adults. The dangers of smoking is no secret. Nearly 70% of smokers say they want to quit. Unfortunately, the nicotine in cigarettes is very addictive, making it difficult to stop. I believe there is a better alternative: the electronic cigarette. Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, give smokers a way to mimic the feeling of smoking a traditional cigarette, while still…

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    friend and had a smoke with him? Well, that is usually how a smoking addiction starts. You think that it is ok to smoke every once in a while with your friends but after a few times your body starts to crave it and know u find yourself smoking by yourself and you realize that it’s not as much fun anymore. This happens a lot people start out that it is a social thing and that you only smoke with friends but after time they find themselves smoking a pack a day. This not only has a toll on your…

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    and even make a difference in other individuals lives. If more people choose to light up another cigarette, they are choosing to live unhealthy, and damage others around them as well. As the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states, smoking is the main cause of “one in five deaths” each year in the United States alone (3). Cigarettes are considered as a deadly substance to society, making victims vulnerable to second hand smoke. With that being said, it is safe to say that…

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    “Smoking is Bad and should be illegal” In Sally Chen’s “Smoking is Bad for everyone so it should be illegal,” Chen states smoking should be illegal. It breaks Chen’s heart to see high school kids standing on one foot outside school property and puffing away furtively and defiantly on their cigarettes. Most teens often have to deal with their classmates. They are pressured to be start smoking and they think it makes them popular. Some start smoking due to their family. They see them smoking so…

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    The harms of smoking have become more popular around the world. Global health organizations have discussed many topics about the effects of smoking on people and the environment. CDC reports about 42 million US adults were cigarette smokers in 2012. This is eighteen percent of all adults. This is about one in every five people. Nationwide, fourteen percent of high school students were smoking cigarettes in 2012. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Each year…

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    tobacco. When I was younger the only thing I ever noticed was the smell of the smoke or the look of my granddad’s spit, but I never thought anything of it. Later on, my school would start the D.A.R.E. program, and I started to learn more about what smoking and chewing tobacco does to harm our bodies and those around us. Ever since then I have hated the idea of using tobacco. Even though it may seem like a big challenge, tobacco should be made illegal in the United States because it is addictive…

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    Professor and Classmates, According to Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), secondhand smoke can cause serious health problems in children. Older children whose parents smoke get sick more often and the children that inhale secondhand smoke get bronchitis and pneumonia, and the lungs grow less than the children who do not breathe secondhand smoke. Wheezing, coughing and asthma can also trigger in a child who are around parents who smoke (severe asthma can put child's life in…

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    Smoking can cause autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. In particular, smoking can double a persons’ risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. Tobacco use can also be accredited for the periodic flare-ups of particular symptoms and signs of certain autoimmune diseases. Recently, smoking cigarettes has been linked to type two diabetes, which is also known as adult-onset diabetes. Research shows that those who smoke are 30% to 40% more likely to develop type than…

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