Formal Writing

Should cigarette smoking be banned?

A small stick of tobacco rolled up in some paper has the power to kill you if you let it. Bringing the cigarette to your lips and simply igniting it with a flame for the first time can be the start to a long, unhealthy addiction. I believe that cigarette smoking should be banned for many reasons. These reasons include the way it negatively affects your health, the health of those around you, your mental health. Although there are so many negative impacts, smoking is still a popular addiction which needs to be stopped. Also, if smoking was to be banned now, then further generations will not be encouraged as much to try it. These points all come logically come together to portray the obvious point that cigarette smoking should be banned.

If anything, the main reason for smoking cigarettes to be banned, is because of the way it can affect your own health. Every cigarette you smoke has a way of harmly almost every organ in you body and ruins your system The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely is will be the reason for serious medical issues and possibly result in death. Statistics from the New Zealand Government, show that over 80 percent of lung cancer is caused by smoking. Also, the chemicals from tobacco can eventually get into your bloodstream and travel through your body. Each year, 5000 people - 13 people a day - in New Zealand die from either smoking or exposure to smoke. By banning the smoking of cigarettes, the death rate could definitely decline. Although smoking can be seen as some form of stress relief to benefit your mental health, it is ruining your physical health. The less people there are smoking in our country, the fewer deaths will occur. However, it is difficult to get so many people to quit, but by banning the smoking of cigarettes, you have no choice but to quit. By banning smoking, hopefully one day there will be a generation which does not know anything about cigarettes and tobacco, and they will not face the health consequences which smoking brings.

Personal health is very important. The health of those around you is also very important. Secondhand smoke comes from those who smoke and affects the people around them. Exposure to secondhand smoke can be just as deadly as doing the smoking yourself. Secondhand smoke can have subtle and serious effects. Subtle being headaches, dizziness, or coughing and serious effects including heart disease, lung cancer and strokes. Children can be majorly affected too with illnesses such as ear infections, lung or breathing illness, and sometimes even sudden unexpected death in infantry. Secondhand smoke is dangerous and has such negative long term effects on people who do not deserve it because they do not personally smoke. Smoke Free New Zealand states that before indoor smoking was banned, around 350 people a year, would die from secondhand smoking. Banning cigarette smoking can benefit the lives of those who are around smokers quite often. This point is particularly aimed toward families of those who smoke. By banning cigarette smoking, and people not smoking as much as they usually would, or not at all, then that will be benefiting the health of so many friends and families who usually have to live with the smoke surrounding them from those they love.

Mental health can sometimes be affected more than physical health. When you purchase a pack of cigarettes or some tobacco, you are basically paying just to kill your own organs. Now that is a definite waste of money. In the United States, people who generally smoke a pack of smokes a day - which is quite a lot - pay close to $15000 a year. That $15000 could go towards so much more than just feeding into an unhealthy addiction which is hurting you physically and mentally. Mental impacts can include stress from running out of cigarettes, or anger due to not having enough money to go towards cigarettes, and that anger can sometimes be further aimed toward someone else, turning serious, into some form of abuse. Sometimes, so much money goes towards purchasing cigarettes, and then there is not enough money left for necessary items like food to feed a family. Things like this can tear families apart. There is no point in just letting people use their hard earned money to go towards something which will eventually kill them. Cigarettes should be banned, they are hurting the bank accounts of so many people and their suffering families.

Smoking can be a now and then kind of thing, or it can become a vital part of life. By banning cigarettes, the addiction of them will hopefully fade, and could restore so many lives which have been spent smoking for so many years. It is quite risky as there is a chance that many people could gravitate toward drug use, but by banning smoking cigarettes, that is a start to banning other drugs, and helping more lives. If this law was to be implemented now, there is a chance that smoking could be an unknown thing for future generations and they will not have to face the many consequences which smoking can bring. It will be an end to a horrible killer.

The smoking of cigarettes should no longer be a thing. There are so many negative outcomes from smoking that it is not worth it. Your harming your own physical health, the health of those around you, and you mental health. Banning these small sticks of evil would so beneficial for our country and the rest of the world. It would save so many lives and disgusting smell of smoke in so many public areas can finally be gone. Keeping cigarettes around is just feeding into a harmful addiction and not helping those who are wanting to quit, to actually do so. Cigarettes need to be banned now, for a future so pure, and 100% smoke free.