Tobacco industry. Should cigarettes be legal?

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Assignment 1. Write a preliminary thesis statement on your topic (no more than one sentence)

Cigarettes shouldn’t be legalized, because cigarettes kill more people every year.

Assignment 2. After brainstorming about your topic, make a List of your ideas on it (please write words, phrases and/or numbers, avoid writing sentences)

1. Young blood

2. Popularity

3. Waste of money

4. Relaxation

5. Nervous system

6. Smoking bans

7. Warning messages in packages

8. Health issues

9. Heart diseases

10. Death

Assignment 3. Make a Mind Map on your topic (you may use a separate sheet of paper for this brainstorming activity)

Cigarettes

Have fun with friends Moneymaker Health problems Habit

Communication Heart diseases

Nicotine poisoning

Waste of money Emphysema

Lung cancer

Throat cancer

Addiction

Death

Assignment 4. Within 5 (FIVE) minutes do Free Writing on your topic (while writing you should NOT correct any mistakes and may use any other language if you do not know an English equivalent):

Smoking is a global problem all over the world. Nowadays, a lot of people smoke. Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer like lung cancer, throat cancer, emphysema, and heart diseases. It can shorten your life by 10 years or more. The habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year.

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Tobacco industry. Should cigarettes be legal?

List

PRO`S	CON`S
Momentary gratification.	Smell of cigarettes on clothes, furniture, car, house, everything.
Smoking and tobacco use aid them in losing weight.	Scaly, unhealthy-feeling skin.
Ways to calm nerves, stress management and decrease anxiety.	Nausea from smoking too much.
Smoking helps you think	Feelings of shame while spending time with nonsmokers.
Nicotine prevents cold sores, sepsis, and helps to treat schizophrenia	Trembling hands and fingertips.
Nicotine improves memory and helps brain repair itself	Yellow skin, teeth and fingernails.

2. Thesis statement: Cigarettes should be illegal because cigarettes are powerful and addicting drugs that are very harmful to people who smoke them. Also, cigarettes are harmful to people who are passive smoking and in the environment.

I. Cigarettes should be banned completely.

II. Bad sides of smoking cigarettes.

A. Cigarettes are dangerous for our health.

1. 33 percent to 50 percent of all smokers are killed by their habit.

2. Smokers die on average 15 years sooner than nonsmokers.

3. Smoking gives you wrinkles, stains your teeth, and gives

you bad breath.

4. Smoking makes you smell bad, gives you wrinkles, stains your teeth, and gives

you bad breath.

B. Cigarettes create a public nuisance.

1. Smoking makes you smell bad.

2. Smokers are considered to be criminals in some societies.

III. Smoking is a waste of time and money.

A. Some average smokers in the UK smoke 20 cigarettes per day x7 packs per week

1. The average smokers spend most of their income on cigarettes.

B. Cigarettes are expensive for us.

1. Illnesses caused by smoking takes a lot of money.

IV. There is a great possibility of death

A. Death is the brand name for a cigarette

1. Smoking is responsible for a lot of death and terminal diseases.

B. Smoking can shorten your life.

1. Smoking shortens lifespan and is a constant killer.

V. Some positive sides of cigarettes.

A. Income for some people.

1. Provides jobs

2. Tax revenues for the state.

B. Relaxation, memory improvement and weight loss.

VI. The fact that cigarette is additive makes it imperative for it to be prohibited.

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Tobacco industry. Should cigarettes be legal?

People seem to think that terminal diseases and catastrophic events are the main killers

these days. But on the contrary, the smoking has been researching to be a very serious contender

for the award of the best human killer of all times. All other common causes of death are not has

obvious as what survey shows of effects of smoking. The argument I want to present is to defend

the notion that smoking should be illegal due to reason provided to support the illegality of it.

Cigarettes should be illegal, because cigarette smoking is one of the major killers in the

world. The S.L. Stewart (2008) argues that smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer

deaths. It is linked with an increased risk of the following cancers: Lung, oral cavity, stomach,

pancreas, cervix, kidney, bladder, acute myeloid leukemia. Smoking is responsible for almost 9

out of 10 lung cancer deaths. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in both men and

women, and is one of the hardest cancers to treat. Lung cancer is a disease that can often be

prevented (Stewart, S.L., 2008). According to the American cancer society (2010), some

religious groups that promote non-smoking as part of their religion, such as Mormons and

Seventh-day Adventists, have much lower rates of lung cancer and other smoking-related

cancers. As serious as cancer is, it accounts for less than half of the deaths related to smoking

each year. Smoking is a major cause of heart disease, aneurysms, bronchitis, emphysema, and

stroke. Smoking can make pneumonia and asthma worse. It has been linked to other health

problems, too, including gum disease, cataracts, bone thinning, hip fractures, and peptic ulcers.

Some studies have also linked smoking to muscular degeneration, an eye disease that can cause

blindness (American Cancer Society, 2010).

Dr. Akwasi Osei (2008) Chief Psychiatrist at the Accra Psychiatric

Hospital claims "Tobacco shortens the lifespan of smokers by 25 years with about 70% of

people who begin smoking from their teens dyeing by age 45" (Osei A., 2008, p.116124).

According to the CYWH Staff at Children's Hospital Boston (2006), makes you smell not

good, gives you wrinkles, stains your teeth, and gives you bad breath, and also smokers get 3

times more cavities than non-smokers. Cigarettes lower your hormone levels. When smokers

catch a cold, they are more likely than non-smokers to have a cough that lasts longer. They are

also more likely than non-smokers to get bronchitis and pneumonia. Teen smokers have smaller

lungs and a weaker heart than teen non-smokers. They also get sick more often than teens who

do not smoke. (The CYWH Staff at Children's Hospital Boston, 2006).

National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine (2000) shows

that more than 12 million Americans have died from smoking since the 1964 report of the

Surgeon General. Moreover, another 25 million Americans alive today will most likely die of

smoking-related illnesses. And it does not matter what type of cigarette is smoked. In fact,

another major conclusion from the latest report, consistent with recent findings of other scientific

studies, is that smoking so-called low-tar or low-nicotine cigarettes does not offer any health

benefits over smoking regular or “full-flavor” cigarettes. “There is no safe cigarette, whether it is

called ‘light,’ ‘ultra-light’ or any other name,” the Surgeon General has said. “The science is

clear: the only way to avoid the health hazards of smoking is to quit completely or to never start

smoking” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000).

Another reason cigarettes should be banned is if you think of how waste of time and money.

Statistics show that today smoking costs the National Health Service (NHS) more than £5 billion

a year. There is two different ways of looking at this – one is if nobody smoked we would save

£5bn but the alternative view is an enormous health problem and should be moved back up the

policy agenda.

On another hand, smoking is as much a psychological pleasure as it is a physiological

satisfaction. Dichter E. (2010) believes: "It is not the taste that counts. It's that sense

of satisfaction you get from a cigarette that you cannot get from anything else." (Ernest Dichter,

2010) Many people smoke, because it helps them relax and gives them confidence, or because it

helps to cope up with difficult situations. Other people smoke when they feel bored. Smoking

produces a feeling of satisfaction that is difficult to give up. Furthermore people who smoke are

usually in denial – they know that smoking is bad, but they convince themselves it's simply "not

as terrible as they make it sound." As we have said, to explain the pleasure derived from

smoking as taste experience alone, is not sufficient. For one thing, such an explanation leaves out

the powerful erotic sensitivity of the oral zone. Oral pleasure is just as fundamental as sexuality

and hunger. It functions with full strength from earliest childhood. There is a direct connection

between thumb sucking and smoking. "In school I always used to chew a pencil or a pen," said a

journalist, in reply to our questions. "You should have seen the collection I had. They used to be

chewed to bits. Whenever I try to stop smoking for a while, I get something to chew on, either a

pipe or a menthol cigarette. You just stick it in your mouth and keep on sucking. And I also

chew a lot of gum when I want to cut down on smoking...."

The satisfied expression on a smoker's face when he inhales the smoke is ample proof of his

sensuous thrill. The immense power of the yearning for a cigarette, especially after an enforced

abstinence, is acknowledged by habitual smokers. One of our respondents said: "When you do

not get a cigarette for a long time and you are kind of on pins, the first drag goes right down to

your heels."

New Orleans - scientists continue to explore the remarkable protective effects of nicotine—

the addictive chemicals in tobacco — on the brain are continuing to surprise scientists. One

recent study has found that one of nicotine's Metabolites may improve memory and protect brain

cells from diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. (Science Daily, 2003).

Another new study shows that nicotine can help improve some of the learning and

memory problems associated with hypothyroidism. Such studies suggest that nicotine — or

drugs that mimic nicotine — may one day prove beneficial in the treatment of neurological

disorders. "These findings do not mean people should smoke," warns neuroscientist Michael

Kuhar of Emory University (2003) "Any benefits from the nicotine in cigarettes or other tobacco

products are far outweighed by the proven harm of using those products. But pure nicotine-like

compounds as medications do show promise for treating human disorders" (Kuhar, M., 2003)

In conclusion, it is clear that smoking has its good and bad sides as elaborated in the essay. But

from all indication the sides of it outweighs the good sides. As a result, it would be of advantage

to humanity if smoking is totally prohibited due to its addictive nature.

References

1.Stewart, S.L. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (September 5, 2008). Retrieved

November 11, 2011, from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5708a1.htm

2. Osei, A. What is being done to raise awareness and reduce stigma in South Africa?

Mental Health Stigma, (November 7, 2008, p.116-124).

3. Dichter, E. Smoking From All Sides (October 12, 2010). Retrieved November 9, 2011, from

http://smokingsides.com/docs/whysmoke.html

4. Kuhar, M. Science a Go Go (November 13, 2003). Retrieved November 3, 2011, from

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20031012195753data_trunc_sys.shtml

5. The CYWH Staff at Children's Hospital Boston, Center for Young Women’s Health

(December 6, 2006). Retrieved December 1, 2011, from

http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html

6. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S.

National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (March 19, 2000). Retrieved October

20, 2011, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44703/

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December 2, 2011,

from http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/002967-pdf.pdf

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from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/11/031112072839.htm

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