Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Put It On the Banned List

What’s so special about smoking cigarettes?  The United States have made it illegal for possession of Marijuana, Heroin. Cocaine, Ecstasy, etc.  All these drugs  give the same effect for an individual.  It gives them a sense of relaxation, the ability to feel alive, and to let loose of everything.  However, most people know about the harmful things that can be done to their body.  Nonetheless, they still decide to get involved with it.  Cigarettes are dangerous to our environment and but the government fails to see that cigarettes are unnecessary to the economy.  They kill people slowly and some people don’t even realize it.  However, the government has done nothing but raise the prices of cigarettes.  It didn’t even stop people from buying them.  In fact, it makes people that are buying the cigarettes, lose more of their income. 
Why won’t the government completely ban these cancer sticks?  It does no good for the economy, other than killing our people.  What will it take?  The government won’t operate right if we lose most of our population.  There are always ads, informers, and educators that go around about the negative side of cigarettes.  We encourage kids and adults to not smoke but yet everywhere we go, there will always be at least one individual lighting up a cigarette.  How contradictory is that?  We should put a strong ban against cigarettes.  We should stop the productivity of cigarettes before everyone starts getting sick.  Some people will never realize how harmful these things can do to their body.  It is only best to get rid of it completely because before we know it, we will lose our people one by one.   

4 comments:

Sarah Nguyen said...

I found Linda's new blog about banning cigarettes very interesting. It is true that the United States have made it illegal for possession of Marijuana, Heroin, Cocaine, Ecstasy, and many more drugs. Most people think of these drugs as a way for relaxation and to relieve stress. However, they are unaware of the devastating aftereffects that come from an addiction of smoking cigarettes as well. These drugs could cause some serious damages to one’s body. The same consequences apply to cigarettes. The effects of smoking cigarettes are serious and in many cases, deadly. There are approximately 4,000 chemicals in cigarettes. Hundreds of them are known to be toxic, such as carbon monoxide and nicotine. This is not a joking matter to be taken lightly. It kills people slowly, day by day. A large percentage of those who fell victim to lung cancer were also found to be cigarette smokers. Linda made a good point on how dangerous cigarettes could do to one’s health. However, she stated that the government has done nothing drastic, except raised the prices of cigarettes. I do feel that the government has not done all they could in their power to lower the smoking rate, but let us not forget about the cigarettes tax. The government did put a special tax on cigarettes in order to reduce the smoking rate. It did lower the rate at one point, but it was not much of a significant number.
Regardless, people are going to do what they want to do. Like I stated earlier, smoking cigarettes quickly become highly addictive. Even a cigarettes tax did refrain people from purchasing them. I do agree with Linda that people are losing more of their income buying cigarettes. Not only does it negatively affect people's health, it hurts their wallets as well. That is why I strongly agree with Linda that our government should completely ban these cancer sticks. In the past, the cigarette tax did not make an extreme impact in lowering sales. Likewise, it will not change now, so why bother having it at all? We might as well ban cigarettes overall. It is obvious that these cigarettes are not good for our health, and they have a large number of negative side effects. As long as the cigarettes are still available to the public, there will always be consumers. Therefore, the best way to protect and promote our country’s health is to completely ban cigarettes. After reading Linda’s blog, I took a lot of thoughts into consideration. As informed individuals, we should encourage people to quit smoking, protesting against cigarettes, and educate others about the negative side of cigarettes. We need to save our country. By doing little things like this, it could greatly affect the government into taking further actions to ban cigarettes.

Devon Gould said...

I thought Linda's view on cigarettes was really interesting to me in Put It On The Banned List. Interesting to me considering I did used to smoke and I have a significant amount of family members and friends that do smoke. I thought she made a lot of great points about why cigarettes should be banned. Cigarettes are extremely dangerous to the society and it does slowly kill people and it's just simply completely unhealthy for anyone. However, whether or not the government is trying to stop people from smoking cigarettes now, do I think that they should make cigarettes illegal along with Marijuana, Heroin. Cocaine, Ecstasy, etc?
My answer is No. I do think if it were made illegal, plenty of people would stop smoking and the lung cancer rate and every other negative thing that comes from cigarettes would significantly drop. While at the same time there would be many negatives that come from banning cigarettes. First of all, people would keep smoking illegally. Tobacco companies would go "underground" and sell illegally. Tobacco farmers would keep producing and selling their tobacco. Crime rate would increase involving tobacco, and so many other negatives would come from banning cigarettes. It would be a new prohibition, and if we learned anything from the alcohol prohibition, banning cigarettes is just not a smart idea.
I think everyone in their right mind would agree that cigarettes a bad for you, even the avid smoker. However, I just don't think it would be an intelligent decision by the government to ban cigarettes. We don't need a new prohibition and people have their own unalienable right to make their own stupid decisions.

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