In the article “Smoking is an archaic habit with no place in modern society”, Chia Kee Seng aims to show his readers that to further reduce the number of smokers in Singapore, the Government should follow through with the bid of increasing the minimum legal age (MLA) for smoking from eighteen to twenty-one years old. Firstly, Chia is concerned about the amount smokers in Singapore stagnating for the past ten years because there had always been a steady decline before this. He proves this by displaying statistics of the number of smokers in Singapore, and concludes that the decrease in smokers has led to a decline in citizens being diagnosed with lung cancer. Secondly, Chia introduces steps the Government has taken to aid with bringing down the number of smokers in Singapore, such as forbidding all forms of advertisement on tobacco, disallowing smoking in certain public areas, and increasing the tax on cigarettes. Thirdly, Chia emphasizes that to decrease the number of smokers in Singapore, the Government has …show more content…
Chia claims that raising the MLA for smoking will make it more difficult for teenagers to get ahold of tobacco products, be it from shops or from their peers. This argument is not accurate because doing so might lead to the opposite happening due to reverse psychology. Instead, such a law may evoke an increase in youths wanting to start smoking. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized drug usage and has since then faced a fall in drug abuse cases by seventy-five percent (Frayer, 2017). This proves that reverse psychology is existent within a country and its laws. Increasing the MLA and deliberately making it harder for youths to get ahold of cigarettes might make them want to start even more because with the increase, they will see smoking as something the Government is very against and might all the more want to try
Smoking and cigarettes symbolize escape throughout the short story "Quitters Inc." by Stephen King. According to the characters McCann and Morrison, their difficulties in life are depicted throughtout. One example would be when Morisson was on his way to the treatment he smoked a cigarette. The treatment was intended to make him quit smoking which is a drastic change in his life, being used to smoking everyday to all of a sudden quitting. The cigarette symbolizes an escape to forget what he is on his way to do, he doesn't smoke cigarettes because he likes them as mentioned in the story after he smoked it
Therefore, this paper will focus on the frequent use by the teenage population, its risks, the law, and the debate on the legalization of
In California alone, the number count of deaths from smoking has been increasing every single day and has not been going down at all. In reading a article I read that a Surgeon General stated that “ Approximately half of today’s 44.8 million smokers will die prematurely from smoking-related diseases.” Prop 56 will help California put the death toll lower than it is right now. The way Prop 56 will help save many lives is by adding a $2.00 increase in the tax revenue for a cigarette or anything that contain the ingredient of nicotine. When reading a map in Tobaccofreekids.com I saw that California was the 37th out of the 50 states that had the lowest taxes on cigarettes.
Wispy, white tails of smoke drift around the front seat of the car towards the children sitting in the back. The smoke does not amuse the third grader; he smells, sees, and breathes in the smoke every day from his mother’s cigarette. The smoke reaches the newborn infant strapped in her car seat, unable to escape the killer substance hanging in the air. Her lungs slowly adjust to her mother’s killer habits, which then becomes the baby’s killer habit without even lifting the cigarette to her delicate mouth. This scenario occurs in many families and cars around the country, and while many smokers realize the potential, deadly effects on their own bodies, they do not realize the deadly effects on their passengers.
This finding challenges the notion that legalization would lead to widespread use among young people, and instead suggests that
Most people who smoke say they started young, so putting an age restriction, having a more smoke-free environment, and raising taxes on cigarettes will prevent young people from being able to get their hands on tobacco products or wanting to. With less tobacco use in the world, more people will be healthier and life expectancy will rise, not only because they will not be putting dangerous chemicals in their bodies, but the pollution caused by cigarettes will decrease. It would be nice to see less littered cities and states and have more clean air to breathe. Overall, the country and the world will be happier and healthier. This will improve the lives of the people, though not everyone will always comply, but according to data in previous paragraphs if we try and make an effort tobacco can eventually become a thing of the
I Wrote This Because I Got High Marijuana has become the most controversial drug in the current era. With both sides on marijuana legalization spreading lies or bending the truth about marijuana to advance their political agenda, it is challenging for the younger generation to learn and understand the truth about marijuana. Anti-drug campaigns such as the Just Say No Campaign do not educate kids about marijuana, but rather rely on convincing kids to blindly say no to marijuana. Afroman's "Because I Got High" provides a different perspective about marijuana. While the song glorifies getting high with its upbeat and fun tone, the lyrics seem to expose the consequences of getting high.
Stephen King uses cigarettes and smoking as a symbol of self destruction. In Stephen King's short story the cigarettes and smoking were slowly destroying Morrison and his family. Morrison's actions were what determined the outcome of him quitting smoking. Cigarttes and smoking held his family's future. Smoking and cigarettes are like a discrete form of killing someone and, Stephen King use this indirect metaphor to form the concept of the ending of one's life and family voluntarily.
A daily basis of only adults smoking could change and evolve into the whole population, from all ages, getting into that unhealthy habit. It’s undeniable that some things placed by the government are actually helpful, especially the age limits. They often state that being able to express themselves in any way possible should be considered. This could cause an uproar within the world population. If teens are getting what they want, then so should everyone, by all means lets legalise drugs and weapons and we’ll see what a great time everyone is having when families, schools and governments are effected as well as countries.
According to CDC, which is the center for disease control and prevention, “Cigarette smoking is accountable for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the US, including nearly 42,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke. This is about one in five deaths yearly, or 1,300 deaths every day.” LOGICAL ORIENTATION: Smoking may be a habit for people all around the world, but many aren’t aware of the detrimental effects that it has in the body. In this speech I will talk about how smoking can cause lung cancer, bronchitis, and diabetes.
1.1 Background Indonesia is one of the developing countries that have high levels of consumption and production of cigarette. Variation product and price cigarettes cause Indonesia has become one of the producers and consumers cigarette the largest in the world (Anies, 2006). According to the Director of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, Frans Rupang, permitting the establishment of a cigarette production is relatively easy. Now we have at least 3,800 cigarette factories, including home-based classes. The amount was the largest in the world (http://bisniskeuangan.kompas.com accessed 25 April 2015).
Dont Smoke For Our Sake For many years smoking cigarettes has been legal to smoke in public places. Would you allow this to continue even knowing the harm and dangers it can bring people who smoke and even people who don 't? Imagine being in a nice family friendly park on a sunny, summer day.
Argumentative Essay: Should Tobacco Be Banned? Name Instructor Institution Course Date Should Tobacco Be Banned According to the existing statistics, the greatest proportion of the world’s population does not smoke tobacco. As noted in the United States of America, only one out of four adults smoke.
Smoking has been a long time habit round the world. However, in the past, smoking cigarette was very popular and known to be a cool recreational drug, and was widely accepted by the community across the world. Today smoking has been less widely accepted and more restricted because of the many health risks that are linked to smoking cigarette. These days, people are well educated and more knowledgeable about the health risks of smoking.
Secondly smoking approximately result in 3,000 lung cancer deaths of non-smokers which is given off by the end of the burning cigarette and by the smokers exhalation. REASONS OF SMOKING 1) Youngsters try to look “cool” 2) Smoking acts as a stress reliever. 3) To control their weight. 4) Addiction 5) Peer pressure 6) Experimentation/ Adventure 7) Marketing of tobacco companies 8) Social Integration 9) To think Properly 10) Addiction SMOKING KILLS