Argumentative Essay On Banning Cigarette Smoking

About 1 billion people around the world smoke. Within that 1 billion about 5 million die each year due to cigarettes. According to the World Health Organization, about one person dies every 6 seconds. Second-hand smoking will kill 600,000 people and 2/3 of them will be children. To prevent this from happening, cigarettes should be banned. While it may be unrealistic to ban smoking because of the number of people who smoke, the government should put this into consideration because, of the cost of smoking is expensive, it increases unwanted diseases, and it destroys the environment.

One reason why smoking should be banned is because of the cost of smoking is expensive. According to lung.org, in the United States, a pack of cigarettes can cost

Each time someone lights the end of a cigarette they are impacting deforestation, climate change and litter The tobacco atlas. The process of harming the environment begins with tobacco farming. This itself causes deforestation and desertification. According to eluxe magazine, it is estimated that 200,000 hectares of a forest die due to tobacco farming. This alone is 600 million trees that are left for curing and drying fires. The process of making tobacco includes burning tree which adds more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As a consequence, this would affect global warming and climate

About 20 percent of America’s population smokes. For most people who smoke it takes time for them to stop. Cigarettes contain chemicals that are highly addictive. This is chemical is known as nicotine. Nicotine makes the brain release a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine gives false signals to the brain of happiness and satisfaction. This is when an addiction starts because the body looks for more of that happiness/satisfaction. This is a reason why it may be hard for someone to quit smoking because the second that they don’t receive this false sense of satisfaction they go into depression that can also lead to death. (cite