Cigarettes are banned
Strong, small, unstoppable and highly addictive. Cigarettes. What is so bad about cigarettes? Cigarettes cause life threating disease which risks the lives of families and others. Companies use cigarettes to gain profit even knowing about the risks smoking can do. The amount of people smoking is increasing more and more, that is why it has to stop.
Firstly, a cigarette is made up of high quantities of nicotine; nicotine is a very addictive drug. Constant smoking of nicotine can lead to life disease like cancer, brain damage and even death. Consumers still know about these risks but still smoke because of the nicotine in the cigarettes and that is why they cannot stop. When smokers associate with non-smokers, the non-smokers will inhale the smoke of a cigarette of a smoker, they will become a second hand smoker. Second hand smokers can gain the same risks as a smoker, so staying around smokers can be dangerous. In 2004 someone dies from nicotine use each eight seconds also, nicotine kills around one in 10 adults each year that goes up to about 5 million people a year.
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Costumers are addicted to these cigarette, making companies explode in sales and profit. In the U.S.A about 371 billion cigarette packs were sold from the year 2006 which is about 50 million packs a day, this means that there could be more people smoking each year ,in addition the international coastal did an ocean clean pickup in 2007 and picked up around 2 million cigarette butts which became the most common debris collected. In the year before 1971 smoking was advertised and was the new hip thing saying smoking is good for your health and even encourage kids to smoke, in the beginning of the year 1971 the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act made smoking advising