Lung Cancer

“Lung Cancer is the biggest killer in the country, ending the lives of more than 160,000 people a year. Yet the disease remains the lowest on the list of funding priorities.“ This shows how smoking cigarettes is a leading cause of death. When people chose to smoke they are affecting their health as well as others around them. Cigarettes should be made illegal because smoking creates health risks, second-hand smoke, and causes death.

Cigarettes have a wide range of chemicals in them that are damaging to your organs. The most common smoking related cancer is lung cancer where there is so much tar on a person’s lung they are having a hard time just trying to breathe. Many people that suffer from lung cancer often die. Other cancers from smoking include: mouth cancer, throat cancer, and stomach cancer. This can all be avoided if cigarettes are banned from the market. The treatments to help people with cancer are costly. Most families can’t afford to pay for this so it ends up being fatal so you have to ask your self is it really worth it.

First-hand smoke is not the only damage smoking does to people. Second-hand smoking is just as dangerous and is dangerous to all those around you. Second hand smoke i. Second-hand smoke is especially harmful to children as they grow. I feel smoking should be illegal in public places because it is not just affecting the smoker but it is hurting the non-smokers.

Cigarettes are a deadly product. Companies are forced to have the surgeon general warning on each pack of cigarettes. If we are aware that cigarettes cause harm then why are they even on the market? It is also a known fact that your body does not stop fully growing until you are in your mid-twenties, but cigarettes are sold to eighteen year olds. If not taken completely off the market then the age of purchase should be raised to twenty-one, along with alcohol.

Smoking has proven to be harmful to your health, but people still choose to