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Cigarette Banned
Cigarette smoking is considered as an important health concern. This is because it is a leading cause of health complication for both the smoker and the innocent persons who are around them. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that cigarette smoke increases mortality rate by as much as three times since it results in difficult to treat and manage health conditions such as vascular diseases, respiratory ailments, and cancer. In fact, it is considered as the cause of the largest number of deaths, accounting for 20% of all deaths, which amounts to more than 480,000 deaths annually to include 201,773 females and 278,544 males. The most distressing aspect of this data is that it includes secondhand smokers whose only wrongdoing was being in the vicinity of a firsthand smoker (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Therefore, cigarette smoking causes adverse health effects, pollution problem, and premature death.
As earlier indicated, cigarette smoke is a leading cause of many mental and physical problems to include diseases. Firstly, smokers run the risk of suffering addiction. This is because the tobacco that is found in cigarettes contains nicotine, a highly addictive substance. The nicotine creates dependency and tolerance in the body such that a smoker is forced to gradually increasing numbers of cigarettes on subsequent occasions. In essence, the body tolerance to the nicotine ma…