Illegalize+Cigarettes-+Brooke

If you know what a cigarette is, then i am sure you know that is very bad for you in many different ways. Smoking cigarettes is one of the worst habits you can have. It can give you little problems like bad breath or big ones like cancer or death. I think that cigarettes should be illegalized. First of all, smoking causes many health problems and can even cause financial issues. You can get diseases from smoking such as heart disease, aneurysms, bronchitis, emphysema, and stroke, and it makes pneumonia and asthma worse. If you smoke for a long enough you could even die from it. These health hazards from simply taking a breath of the smoke are the main reason I think that cigarettes should be illegalized. If cigarettes were to be illegal in the United States it would save many people money, too. People can be spending about two hundred dollars a month on cigarettes and some people spend even more.

Another thing that would be stopped if cigarettes are illegalized is second-hand-smoke. This is when somebody inhales smoke from another person’s cigarette. If someone is constantly around another person who smokes the damage can be just as bad to them. This can happen a lot if a child is around a parent/guardian who smokes. I am sure that nobody wants this to happen to any young child. Also, many people say how they can’t stop smoking and that a law like this would never work. If the government got the people who needed help quitting the help they needed to stop, for free, the law could work and help many people. Then somebody who could not afford the right stuff t stop smoking would have the help.

Adults aren’t the only people who smoke. Many teens are smoking today simply because cigarettes are very easy for them to get to. If someone maybe 15-17 years old looks older then they really are they can pretend there 18 years old and get cigarettes. Clerks don’t always ask for IDs even if they are not sure if the person buying the cigarettes at there store over the legal smoking age. When a survey was taken in the United States over 20% of high school students had smoked a cigarette in the last thirty days. Teens today get cigarettes and they might not know any better or be under peer pressure to get them, but if cigarettes were gone they would not be in stores and it would be hard for teens to get them. Therefore many teens would not ever start smoking.

If cigarettes were illegalized it would help everybody in this country. It would help the health of teens and adults who smoke and anybody who suffers from second-hand-smoke. It would also help any family with a smoker because money that was being spent on cigarettes would be saved and used for better things, more important things. If the government and everyone else help we could make the United States a better, cigarette-free place. 

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