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If the health doesn't stop people from smoking the cost should because this year the tax on tobacco has gone up dramatically. So now the cost is weakening our pockets. The only ones that win in the tobacco field are the Tobacco Company, because they make all the money. If profits fall, all they have to do is advertise a little harder and profits will roll in. But the Tobacco Company does employ a lot of people and is a huge part of the economy. There are a lot of smokers and rising, but today more then ever the smokers are the children. "By the age 18, about two-thirds of the young people in the United States have tried smoking."(Elders 1994) We must not let this happen, the kids are our future, and we should want the best for them, but this will help the tobacco company because "Most people are going to smoke are hooked by the time they are 20 years old."(Elders 1994) This will keep the young people from smoking for a long time. We must protect the children from smoking or we are put them in to an early grave. "Tobacco is estimated to have caused around three million deaths a year in the early 1990'a and rising."(Mccuen 1997) Pretty soon the smokers will get younger and young, we must save the children, or who will. Smokers are not the only ones that are effected by tobacco smoke. "Cigarettes don't only kill the smoker, they also kill the people around them."(Mccuen 1997) Tobacco smoke is like a domino effect, one effects another and another, never stop's. "Environmental tobacco smoke-the secondhand cigarette smoke breathed by nonsmokers is a known carcinogen and the most dangerous environmental pollutant."(Waxman 1995) Surprisingly secondhand smoke causes as many deaths as the tobacco smokers do. "Most people die from secondhand smoke each year than from car accidents."(Waxman 1995) There are a lot of reasons that causes the deaths from secondhand smoke. "Lung cancer is the best known risk from secondhand smoke."(Wilson 1997) The simple smoke from a cigarette is more complex then it really looks. "Each time a person breaths in smoke about a million particles of very tiny complex materials are breathed in and only 20% of that is breathed out."(Hyde 1990) From these little millions of particles is the reason it causes problems for the human body. The main material in the some is nicotine. "Nicotine is an alkaloid poison found in Tobacco leaves that defends the plant against insect attacks. Nicotine affects the nervous system."(Mccuen 1997) Nobody wants that in his or her bodies. But people still light up every day knowing well enough that the tobacco smoke will kill them eventually or cause permanent damage to their bodies. The reason is because the nicotine in the cigarettes is very addictive, let me tell you from my personal experience that it is very addictive. As time goes by a person tolerance goes up. "Tolerance of nicotine begins with the first does of nicotine, people have to smoke more to feel it."(Hyde 1990) "Smoking causes enphasima, heart disease, lung cancer, gum disease, and many more."(Elders 1994) "Of all the disease casually associated with smoking, lung cancer is the most well know. Largely because in most populations, almost all lung cancer deaths are due to smoking."(Machenzie 1995) We most take well care of ourselves before we kill everybody. "Deaths from smoking-related illnesses, however, have climbed, possibly reaching a peak or plateau in 1998."(Machenzie 1995) With all this knowledge of tobacco smoke people are still smoking. It's 1999, people are taking better car of themselves but they are still smoking. Quitting is easier said then done. "People who have smoked about 100 cigarettes in their life time wish they could quite."(Elders 1994) This is the problem; a lot of the smokers can't stop smoking even though they know it is bad for them. "In the United States, four out of five smokers say they want to "kick the habit," each year fewer than one in ten succeed."(Feighery 1992) Quitting is not impossible but comes pretty close to it. "Seventeen million Americans try to quite smoking each year. But more than 15,000,000 individuals are unable to exercise that choice because they cannot break their addiction to cigarettes."(Kessler 1995) The people are finally making an effort to stop or slow down the consumption of cigarettes. "To discourage teenagers and others from starting to smoke the tax has been raised, and at the same time it will help pay for health care."(Aldrich 1995) The tax increase is helping the people but hurting the tobacco companies. If it hurts the Tobacco Company enough, jobs would be lost to compensate for the drain of tobacco consumption. "Many industry studies have reached the same conclusion, estimating that a $1-a-pack increase in cigarette tax would mean a 17 percent decline in cigarette sales and a loss of close to 400,000 jobs, more than 100,000 in the tobacco industry alone."(Robertson 1995) This will greatly effect the economy because a lot of people will be out of work, which means that less money will be put back into circulation, "In 1993, the Clinton Administration proposed a large tax increase on cigarettes to help finance its national health care plan. Such a tax increase would harm the economy by severely damaging the tobacco industry: costing jobs, decreasing income tax revenues, and reducing the consumption of goods and services."(Robertson 1995) It seems like no matter what happens nothing good comes out of it. On one hand we will have our health but we won't have money, on the other hand we can have money but not our health. This sounds like a loss, loss situation. I don't see it that way; health is more important then money. People always can find another job or career but people can't get another body, so we must take care of it very carefully. If smoking is not banned the smokers will have to spend more money then for a pack of cigarette. The medical price. "The estimated average lifetime medical costs for a smoker exceed those for a nonsmoker by more than $6,000."(Machenzie 1995) That's a lot of money. It comes out of everybody's pockets, which not fair but that's life. "Studies have placed the cost of smoking for the United States as a whole at a staggering $65 billion in 1985 in terms of health care expenditures and lost productivity, a value that would surely exceed $100 billion in current dollars."(Machenzie 1995) "The cost savings that result because of the premature deaths of smokers through their lower social security and pension costs will more then compensate for the added costs imposed by smokers, chiefly through higher health insurance costs."(Mccuen 1997) The only way money will be saved is my death. This not the way anyone should want to save money. "The tobacco industry has a problem: 435,000 of its loyal customers die every year. Fortunately for the industry, the one million young people who light up for the first time each year more than compensates for the consumer drain."(Aldrich 1995) I can't believe a company will target young people just to make a profit. The tobacco relies on the young people so much that they spend a lot of money on advertisement. "In 1992 cigarette companies spent 5.23 billion dollars in advertisement and promotion and is rising each year."(Mccuen 1997) Which more then one half was targeting young kids. "A 1992 national sample found that 87 percent of the adolescents surveyed could recall recently seeing one or more advertisements for tobacco products."(Elders 1994) "Increasingly, tobacco companies market their products through promotional activities that reach youth."(Elders 1994) "Cigarette advertisers liken their products to personal success, sex appeal, and beauty. The ads infer that smoking makes men daring, courageous, and manly. For woman, it enhances feminine charm."(Feighery 1992) "The income produced by the tobacco farming and cigarette manufacturing is regenerated throughout the state economy."(Robertson 1995) Even though it is hard to believe, we are helping the tobacco companies by putting money into the company because the Tobacco Company is so big that it effects the economy. "Weoperate in average-size farm, and we put about $1 million each year into the local economy in the farm of wages and buying goods and services to operate the business."(Robertson 1995) That's not all we are paying for due to smokers. "Health care expenditures caused directly by smoking totaled $50 billion in 1993, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."(Mccuen 1997) If tobacco companies closed down a lot of people will be out of work. "Some industries like Philip Morris has up to 152,000 employees."(Marketguide 1999) Which there is a lot of companies like Philip Morris. The world is basically run be tobacco. "The world consumed 5,342,991,000,000 cigarettes during the year, almost as many as in 1990, the year of peak consumption."(Britannica 1998) With that much sales around the world, just think of how much power and control the tobacco companies has over people. For me personally, that is too much power for anyone to have. Banning smoke will benefit the people in the long run. It will give the people a better chance at a healthy life and a ling one. The environment will be a lot cleaner due to less pollution from the tobacco smoke; the nonsmokers will be better off as well from this. But for the money and the economy is another story. The nation and the world will be greatly affected by the drastic change. We will recover from it but it might take a long time. During that time it will be rough because it will effect everybody. I know it will be worth the price to pat because we are getting basically our lives back. The money people will be saving because they are not buying cigarettes will be dramatic. With this new money, it might compensate for the loss. Just think what it would be like, a world without tobacco. Wow, I could only imagine, but hopefully not for long. Bibliography: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Aldrich, Liberty. Smoking; Tobacco Tax Increases Would Reduce Smoking, 1995, San Diego 2. Britannica (1999) http://www.eb,com:180/cgi-bin/g?Keywords=tobacco&Dbase=Articles 3. Elders, Joycelyn (1994). Why Keeping Kids Tobacco Free is Important. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/940shagg.htm 4. Feighery, Ellen, et al. Tobacco Free Youth; How to Reduce Sales to Minors In Your Community, 1992, Stanford CRDP 5. Gold, Mark S. Tobacco, 1995, plenum 6. Hyde, Margaret O. Know About Smoking, 1990, New York 7. Kessler, David A. Smoking; Regulating Nicotine as a Drug be Necessary, 1995, San Diego 8. Mackenzie, Thomas D. Smoking; Smoking Should Be Regulated. 1995, San Diego 9. 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