Smoking is an expensive habit. People who smoke cigarettes can spend as much as $2‚500 a year on them. Smokers’ claim that it helps relax them and it releases stress but the negative aspects of smoking outweigh the positive. Smoking is a health hazard for smokers and non-smokers. Smokers should have the right to choose what to do with their own health but they should respect non-smokers. Many people believe that there are good and bad outcomes from smoking. I believe that smoking is bad and that
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Minimum wage must be raised for us to survive in our very modern society. The minimum wage must be raised today because the cost of living has gone up drastically. Education is essential today‚ and that price tag has increased drastically in the past twenty years as well. People should not have to fight for equal pay for equal work. Companies should be forced to pay their workers what they deserve‚ and that is more than minimum wage is now. With our new technology and the technology in the future
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Angie Funes Prof. Cathy Cripps English 97 May 6‚ 2013 Smoking cigarettes should be illegal For a long time people have different concepts and point of view about smoking. Nowadays a lot of people think that smoking is good and helps them‚ but others think that should be banned. “The Believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.” (Ralph Waldo). The question is what is in a cigarette? A cigarette is made of a classic white paper‚ and when it burns it releases
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Smoking brings with it much harm‚ regardless whether it is with respect to health‚ finance‚ environmental or social issues. The World Health Organization (“WHO”) estimates that tobacco kills one person every 10 seconds (WHO‚ 2005). Smoking causes cancer‚ and is a major risk for illnesses such as coronary heart disease‚ stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. These account for close to two-thirds of all deaths in Singapore in the year 2000 (Health Promotion Board (“HPB”)‚ n.d.). Tobacco is the
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Should cigarette smoking be prohibited? Argue that the cigarettes smoking should be illegal or argue that the cigarettes smoking should continue at present? Cigarette smoking ban is becoming a controversial social issue. Some people support the opinion of the smoking ban‚ but others do not. In my opinion‚ cigarette smoking is an expensive habit and it should be prohibited. Although smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress‚ the negative aspects of the habit outweigh the positive
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If a student is found smoking anywhere else‚ there should be some sort of penalty or punishment to them‚ including the understanding of how this is negatively affecting their lives. It should be something to scare the smoker‚ enough to shake that person a little bit. That person should have to do community service around campus by cleaning up cigarette butts to make the campus look cleaner. Also‚ a series of The Real Cost commercials can be shown. On the other hand‚ the approach can be taken of raising
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Kelvin Omogbeme CIGARETTE SMOKING SHOULD BE BANNED IN THE SAME WAY AS OTHER ILLEGAL DRUGS Tobacco is one of the most widely used drugs in the world‚ mainly in the form of a cigarette. Although most countries have tried to restrict the use of tobacco‚ people still smoke everyday despite the fact that it is poisonous and harmful to their health. Cigarette smoking has been part of our lives for many decades now. Whether cigarettes should be banned or not becomes an object of controversy for many countries
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Smoking is a expensive habit and it should be banned. Although smokers claim that it helps them to relax and release stress‚ the negative aspects outweigh the positive. It is a hazard for both smokers and non - smokers and it is especially harmful to unborn babies. Cigarettes are also addictive because of the nicotine they contain. Smoking should be outlawed due to the hazard it causes to the smokers and non - smokers‚ the negative aspects and dangerous consequences it causes‚ and also the harmful
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Cancer Institute. Each Year an estimate of 443‚000 people die from smoking‚ but the damaging effects of smoking do not stop with the smoker. An estimated 88 million nonsmoking Americans‚ including 54% of children under the age of 12‚ are open to secondhand smoke and about 46‚000 non-smoking Americans die from second hand smoke exposure a year. Over the past few years two of my uncles have had to have open-heart surgery in consequence to smoking most of their life. One of my uncles even got out of his
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Course: ENC1101 – Spring 2015 Date: 03/01/2015 Should cigarette smoking be banned? The world is facing to one of the greatest health threats smoking cigarettes are still being produced‚ traded and consumed in many countries‚ and one of them is United States. Eventually‚ the production and consumption of smoking create businesses and jobs for people‚ and high cigarettes taxes finance early child education and public safety; however cigarette smoking should not be available because they are killing people
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