You are driving home, you pull into the suburbs and see your neighbors on their front porch. The kids are playing, the mom is reading, but their dad…is smoking, sitting there while his loved ones are inhaling what he is exhaling. You drive by, yet this bothers you, this happens every day and all around the world. Smoking needs to be banned permanently everywhere.
First of all, smoking kills around 400,000 annually just in the US, while it causes 30% of all cancer deaths according to the American Lung Association. 90% of the 3,000 teens that start smoking everyday will still be smoking as an adult. A 2004 Study by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion discovered that cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. What I don’t understand is why smoking hasn’t been made illegal yet, it is just a drug that only hurts your body like any other illegal drug out there.
Second, smoking doesn’t just have effects that take place when you’re old, once you inhale from a cigarette, pipe, or cigar, your lungs immediately take damage. Not only do your lungs take damage, even babies in their mother’s womb will suffer. Smoking in pregnancy accounts for 20-30 percent of low-birth weight babies, up to 14 percent of preterm deliveries, and around 10 percent of all infant deaths according to the American Lung Association. Even healthy, full-term babies of mothers who smoke have been found to be born with narrowed airways and reduced lung function
In conclusion, you can see why smoking should be banned not just in the US, but the entire world. Like I said before, I don’t understand why smoking isn't already illegal, it is a drug that only hurts your body, like any other illegal drug. What I find fascinating is your lungs immediately start to repair themselves when you stop smoking, so it is never too late to quit.
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