Should cigarettes be banned?
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Should cigarettes be banned altogether?
There is no positive results from smoking, it harms the individual as well as others around them, known as passive smoking, or second-hand smoking.
It was merely only slightly over a decade ago (July 2007) that
smoking in a public places was made illegal, prior to July 2007, you were allowed to smoke in restaurants, and other various public places.
Then in 2015 it became
illegal to smoke in a vehicle where children under the age of 18 were present.
It is proven that second-hand smoking can and does cause lung cancer and other such diseases associated with smoking.
Most would agree that it's not fair that non-smokers are being diagnosed and in some cases are dying from the effects of smoking cigarettes, yet it is the people around them and their choice to smoke that has resulted in their health problems/death.
As cigarettes are taxed heavily in the UK, it does make a lot of money for the government, but does the money gained outweigh the money spent treating all the effects of smoking, not to mention money spent on sweeping up cigarette butts, and putting out fires caused by cigarettes, and people who are off work ill from the effects of smoking, causing lost productivity and loss of tax revenue for the time they weren't working.
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Imagine a patient in her 40s who is diagnosed with terminal cancer as a result of her smoking. Let's say her care costs the NHS £20,000 before she passes away. Now imagine we could go back in time and prevent her from taking up smoking in the first place. She might live into her 80s, and even if she spends that time in relatively good health is likely to require any number of GP consultations and routine prescriptions in that time.
If her treatment over these decades costs any more than £20,000 then actually the NHS would have spent less had she been a smoker.
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Is the above quote how we want to look at the world? Wouldn't we as a society rather people live longer and fuller lives, rather than hoping they die sooner so it doesn't cost us more in tax?
What are your thoughts?
Please note this may only be relevant to UK residents, I'm unaware of any laws in other countries.
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Should cigarettes be banned?
I agree with Dan and Emily’s point plus the government would not ban alcohol or cigarettes because there making money. I feel the worse thing in the UK is alcohol tbh as people’s moods can change once they’ve had a drink, I feel that would be the first thing they should be looking at banning rather then cigarettes yes they cause harm but in the end you dint see people getting arrested everything weekend do you. Also like dan said a lot of people I know from college and outside won’t smoke a cigarette but smoke weed like I think it’s absolutely funny because tobacco is in the joint they are smoking. Also anything of too much can be unhealthy it depends on the individual what they want to do with there life in the end like a person who drinks lots of water could even drown there lungs so it just depends on the amount of intake you take at the end of the day and make sure everything is in moderation.