Selling Tobacco Should Be Banned

The cigarette which is the most common form of tobacco is one of the most lethal artifacts in human history. Over the years people have started to use tobacco as stress relief, pleasure, or even as a symbol of coolness amongst unaware teenagers but all forms of tobacco are extremely harmful, and there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco. It kills more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Tobacco smokes contain more than 400 chemicals it and most of them are very harmful to the body. 60 % of cancer cases worldwide among men and 25% of cancer in women are tobacco included. Lungs, head and neck cancers which are most common in developing countries are included by tobacco in 80 % of the cases. Tobacco is not only one of the top causes of health issues like Cancer, Tuberculosis, etc. but it is also a defective product, a financial burden on cash-strapped societies, an important source of political and scientific corruption, and a cause of both global warming and global warming denial. The cigarette industry is a powerful corrupting force in human civilization. Big tobacco has corrupted science by sponsoring ‘decoy’ or ‘distraction research’, but it has also corrupted popular media, insofar as newspapers and magazines dependent on tobacco advertising for revenues have been reluctant to publish critiques of cigarettes.

In the United States, more than $ 156 billion a year of productivity is lost due to death from tobacco and diseases caused by second-hand smoke. Another $ 170 billion go to direct medical costs for smokers. If tobacco vanished, so would those costs to society researchers estimate that the 1964 surgeon general’s report and the tobacco control efforts that followed it have saved approx. Cigarettes are also a significant cause of harm to the natural environment. Cigarette manufacturing consumes scarce resources in growing, curing, rolling, flavoring, packaging, transport, advertising, and legal defense, but also causes harm from massive pesticide use and deforestation. Many Manhattans of savannah woodlands are lost every year to obtain the charcoal used for flue-curing. Cigarette manufacturing also produces non-trivial greenhouse gas emissions, principally from the fossil fuels used for curing and transport, fires from careless disposal of butts, and increased medical costs from maladies caused by smoking. Cigarettes are not sustainable in a world of global warming; indeed, they are one of its overlooked and easily preventable causes.

Large warning labels on the back of cigarette boxes are provided, most people are aware of what they are intaking but cannot get over their addiction. Banning Tobacco could help people take the first step of overcoming their addiction. The ban will help reduce health issues, it will be better for the environment and no more adolescents would fall into its trap. People can be mainly vulnerable to the bad effects of tobacco. Hence, the ban on tobacco will be tuff but wise.