Cigarettes Smoke Stick Or Mass Murderer - 1583 Words

Robert Cooper Ms. Braswell English 12 10 November 2015 Cigarettes: Smoke Stick or Mass Murderer? Did you know that the leading preventable cause of death in the United States is cigarettes? A cigarette is a thin cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper for smoking. The first cigarettes were made in 1865 by Washington Duke on his 300-acre farm in North Carolina (History of Tobacco). Cigarettes are inhaled and smoke to feel relaxed. Smoking is an activity in which smoke is inhaled from a burning substance. The biggest pro about cigarettes is that cigarettes bring in profit for the government. The biggest con about cigarettes is that they can cause cancer almost anywhere in your body. Cigarettes can cause more deaths than you think.†¦show more content†¦To convert this number again shows that approximately 1 in every 200 people have a disease caused by smoking in the United States! That is a lot of people whose lives have been affected because of smoking cigarettes. This is unacceptable for a substance that is legal. Also, smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere i n your body (Health Effects Caused by Smoking). Cancer is a disease which causes cells to grow uncontrollably. Cancer can cause primarily death if not treated. However, even if treated, the same result is possible. Some cancers cigarettes can cause include blood, bladder, kidney, liver, lung, and stomach cancer. This list didn’t even name half of the whole list of cancers cigarettes can cause. If nobody smoked, 33 percent of cancer deaths would not even occur. Once again, this is way too unacceptable for a substance that is legal. Don’t forget that smoking increases the risk of getting heart disease and stroke from 2 times as much to 4 times as much (Health Effects Caused by Smoking)! This means, if your family has a history of lung cancer and you smoke, you would be the luckiest man/woman in the world if you didn’t get lung cancer. Lung cancer is a horrible disease and should be avoided with any item or substance that is legal. Disease isn’t the only bad thing about cigarettes. What about the average life span of someone who smokes? Secondly, cigarettes should be illegal because they can drastically shorten the average life span. Life span is