Persuasive Essay About Smoking

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    Smoking has been practiced in different forms since ancient times and only until recently have people become aware of the health hazards associated with smoking and tobacco use. Currently, smoking is considered the single leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States. Governments around the world aim to improve the health of their citizens by discouraging them from smoking. Policies and laws are instituted that aim to achieve a reduction in smoking rates mainly by limiting the…

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    Banning Smoking By: Shrihan.M Have you ever seen someone pull out a cigarette out and smoke it. Did you ever think about how them smoking affects there health, lungs and enviornment. Reading this essay will answer all these questions. Smoking is bad because it can kill you, it make your lungs black and finaly it can harm earth’s four systems. First, smoking is bad for your lungs because it can make your lungs black. Instead of clean lung. Sometimes smoking can also cause lung cancer. Smoking…

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    Smoking in Public Smoking bans in the United States have been around since the 1970’s. Since then different states have made their own laws about where you are allowed to smoke in public areas. Other states have made minimal efforts to decrease the smoking in public. Smoke bans are not made to target those who smoke, rather protect those who do not. Smoking in public produces second hand smoke that is harmful to those around them, to help reduce exposure to second hand smoke for people, the…

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    Smoking in the workplace should be illegal in Victoria; this also includes the immediate vicinity of the workplace. Smoking is extremely detrimental to the health of the smoker and can be even worse for those who inhale the smoke. It can also decrease the cooperate image of a company as result of rapidly declining public support for smoking. On the other hand banning smoking in the workplace can create a more positive workplace for non-smokers. Indeed, smoking is the highest cause of disease…

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    "Smoking is like having a broken burglar alarm. You don 't know the burglar has been there until all your things are stolen," (http://www.altoonafp.org/special_analogies.htm, section 6) Smoking is a topic that has been debated about for a long time. People have the opinion that it has negative influences on the body, on the economy, and on the environment. Smokers believe that it is not that big of a deal. This nasty habit effects everyone on this planet in some way or form. To begin with,…

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    over the past couple of decades has been smoking tobacco. With an increasing number of studies showing and validating that smoking is harmful to you, many people, the majority being non-smokers, believe that there should be some sort of ban on smoking cigarettes, or even making it illegal. However, every topic has an opposing side and contrary to the thought of banning smoking, a large number of people still think that there should be no law forbidding smoking. A large number of the people who…

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    Many people start smoking for several reasons when they are younger, and then by the time they’re adults they’re already addicted. Young teens start smoking for some key reasons. One cause is to try to look ‘cool.’. Many believe they would look mature and older if they did and don’t realize the harm by smoking even once because it is so addictive. Peer pressure is also a relevant reason. Many give in and smoke to be ‘accepted’ by fellow classmates so they wouldn’t be looked at differently. Many…

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    1881 cigarette smoking became widespread, thanks to James Bonsack who created a cigarette machine that can make 120,000 cigarettes a day. Back then they use to allow people to smoke wherever they wanted to. Typically during that time, restaurants and even hotels had smoking and non-smoking sides. By the 1980’s, the government finally took action and made a law stating that you can’t smoke in public places. The reason for this was because they figured out through biopsies that smoking was causing…

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    More than sixteen million Americans are living with diseases caused from smoking. For every person that dies because of smoking there is at least thirty people that living with a smoking habit or a related illness. Smoking causes problems such as heart diseases, chronic bronchitis, heart attack, strokes, and diabetes. Smoking can increase the risk of tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems with the immune system. A male that smokes will eventually…

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    Banning cigarette smoking has been a topic of dicussion for so many years and still is today. So many people don 't realize the negative effect cigarettes have on the human body and yet it is still legal. Many people that inhale the harmful toxic from the cigarette you are proned to illnesses. Smoking cigarettes cause death, diseases/health issues, your appearance changes and it also effects pregnant women. Smoking cigarettes should be banned. There has been a dramatic change in cigarettes over…

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