Advantages of smoking:
- Can make a person relaxed.
- Companies tied to the making and selling of cigarettes make money.
- Cannot smoke in certain areas (hence going a further distance to smoke).
- Physical changes such as discoloured teeth and fingers.
- Cancers, Emphysema (Reduced immune system).
- Premature aging.
- Harms those around you.
Here the disadvantages outweigh the advantages of smoking. So could this suggest that smoking on the whole is the act of being bad?
Some may suggest it could depend upon what one is smoking. On the other hand some suggest that it is an accepted action to 'social smoke': http://www.ipcvision.com/page05/phil-smk-01.htm.
I personally agree with social smoking as the smoker must choose when smoking is appropriate; depending on whether they are with compliant people, alike smokers and within a legal smoking area.
Is nicotine any different from any other drug? In my opinion i think that eventually the disadvantages of nicotine, such as; expenses, physical and mental dysfunctions are shared with similar drugs. I believe it is simply wrong that such an addictive drug is so widely available. But I do believe that society is turning in the right direction with designated smoking areas; and although alienating people by doing so, on a wider scale they’re doing a greater good.
Shouldn't nicotine be illegal?
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Most teens are aware that people who have smoked for awhile can get lung cancer and emphysema and eventually die, but many don't know about all of the bad things that smoking can to them right now. If you smoke, you owe it to yourself to find out about the effects of smoking on your life now. Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, small amounts of these chemicals get into your blood through your lungs. They travel to all the parts of your body and cause harm.
Do you think that smoking is a sign that you can do what you want? That you are in control of your life?
Think about it this way: When you decide to start smoking, you are doing exactly what tobacco companies want you to do. They spend millions of pounds every year on advertising to try to get new people, especially teens, to smoke. Once they have you hooked, THEY are controlling YOU. You are forced to buy their products in order to support your addiction. Do you really want a big corporation controlling your life and telling you how to spend your money?
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