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Smoking In America

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“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I 've done it thousands of times” by Mark Twain.This quote tell us that anyone can quit smoking at anytime because people who wanted to quit were able to do so..In this essay,I am going to tell you what I would do if I was president of the United States for a week.To begin with,I will make cigarettes illegal in the entire United States if I become president .Some people get fired from their jobs because they can’t give up smoking. Sadly,more than 480,000 people in the United States die because of smoking. Smoking kills a lot of people in the United States so why is smoking still legal in the United States?This paragraph will be about the events

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