With the increased health problems that caused by smoking, more and more people think that the production and sale of cigarettes should be made illegal. However, these people tend to ignore that the positive outcome of cigarettes business brings to the society. They also falsely believe that prohibition of producing and selling cigarettes will lead people to adopt a healthier living environment.
Cigarettes business is one of the most profitable industries in the world. The government receive huge amount of taxes from cigarettes companies and it actually uses the money to help fund the welfare program, in which a lot of people can benefit from. Making production and sale of cigarettes illegal will definitely hurt the income of the government, and add pressures on many people who are in need of welfare programs.
Some producers of cigarettes will probably keep the business running under the table, as they are still attracted by the humongous profit. This will create more problems that it actually has. It may cause chaos to the community, since smokers can go depressed and do harmful things without having cigarettes. It may also increase crime rate, since people have to trade cigarettes illegally; it can burden the government, since the government needs to spend more money on hiring people to stop the illegal sale and purchase of cigarettes. The potential negative effects on the illegalization of cigarettes are clearly telling us that it is not a desirable approach.
In addition, many smokers know that if they consume too many cigarettes, their life will be thread with various health problems; however, they still choose to smoke without worrying about their future health. If they have already cared less of their health, they could find way around to purchase cigarettes and smoke anyway even knowing that is illegal. Thus, it cannot provide people with a healthier living environment.
In conclusion, the government should not make the production and sale of cigarettes illegal because it will harm the society economically as well as create more problems that it actually has. The cost of illegalization of cigarettes outweighs the advantage of it, thus they should not make producing and selling cigarettes illegal.
With the increased health problems that are caused by smoking, more...
However, these people tend to ignore that the positive aspects the cigarettes business brings to the society.
They also falsely believe that prohibition of producing and selling cigarettes will lead people to adopt a healthier living environment.
The cigarette business is one of the most profitable industries in the world.
The government receives a huge amount of taxes from cigarettes companies and it actually uses the money to help fund the welfare program, in which a lot of people can benefit from.
Making the production and sale of cigarettes illegal will definitely hurt the income of the government, and add pressures on many people who are in need of welfare programs.---This is possibly the worst argument I have ever read in any essay!
It may cause chaos in the community, since smokers can get depressed and do harmful things without having cigarettes.---Cancer and death also cause depression!
It may also increase the crime rate, since people...
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Hi, Susan
Thanks for the correctings.
I know the arugment is kind of week, but what I want to explain is that the cigarette business pay a lot of taxes to the government , and the government then use that amount of money to benefit society, for example, providing more fund available to welfare programs, social secrutiy, ect.
I am not a smoker and either is my husband, but I just think it is people's right to smoke as long as they don't smoke it in some publice area. Thanks again.
BTW
Do you think it make more sense if I change "Making the production and sale of cigarettes illegal will definitely hurt the income of the government, and add pressures on many people who are in need of welfare programs" to "Thus, making production and sale of cigarettes illegal will definitely bring down government income, which may lead to fewer funds available to support welfare programs."?
Thanks.
