Banning Cigarettes

Banning Cigarettes Many people smoke cigarettes as an everyday routine. People who don’t smoke, have been exposed to second hand smoke and regularly see other people smoke. In malls, colleges, restaurants, and amusement parks are designated areas for smoking. At most jobs it’s alright for workers to take a smoke break, but they’re not allowed to make a phone call. Smoking cigarettes have been accustomed to our lives, even though cigarettes are dangerous for health and to the people around us. In America one out of every five deaths has been caused by cigarette smoking. These deaths can be avoidable. Banning cigarettes can save a lot of lives. If people start consuming heroin in the streets than they’ll get arrested, charged, and recommended for a rehab clinic. Heroin has and long term effects. Long term effects include kidney disease, skin infections, and if people shared a needle they can transmit hepatitis or HIV. After they consume the heroin they would have a dry mouth, drowsy feeling, and they might have a heart attack or even die on the spot. Heroin is very addictive as well. When people stop using the drug their body reacts to that. They have a strong craving for it and are in pain. So it’s understandable why heroin is illegal. Cigarettes contain tar, a carcinogen (substance that causes cancer), and nicotine is addictive substance that also raises the cholesterol levels in your body. There are more substances in the cigarette and they all have an effect on your body, brain, or your physical features. Smoking damages the lungs, heart, causes cancers and other diseases. Smoking can cause asthma or ear infection for kids that are around smoke. It does affect the people around you. Cigarette smoking kills about 40,000 Americans every year. Smoking cigarettes does take a while for it to affect people but it does kill people the same way heroin kills. Heroin can kill on the spot and will slow down the way people think, which means that they can’t