Jose A.

Chavez

Katia Monterrey

ENGL 5-74

11 July 2021

Research Essay Draft

An issue I see a lot in my community and others, is the addiction to using tobacco

products. Approximately more than four hundred eighty thousand individuals pass away each

year due to smoking or in some cases, second-hand-smoking.The tobacco product that I will be

mainly focusing on and talking about is cigarettes, which is the most common type of product

used in the US. I have read many articles that have come up with solutions to get rid of smoking

or lower the death toll caused by it and I have wanted to share some of my thoughts on the topic
CUL and also provide a solution. There have been many programs created to teach the youth the

'racy negative effects that come with using cigarettes and also programs to help people who might

have gotten out of the habit of smoking and need help but, the death toll has never really

changed, so is there any easy way this issue can be resolved?

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wanteWchange-and%adthesameview-as Ididon theissue. For example, there is an organization

called WHO (world health organization), and also a popular group that is part of the CDC which

is called OSH (Office of Smoking and Health). We had common interests and common reasons

for why we cared about finding solutions and most were based off of how we saw the damage

that cigarettes caused to humans and the financial problems that came along with it. With

knowing the cost of all treatments done to help smokers, there is no possibility that anyone
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financial problem. It is estimated that
would agree that someone should go through that
with damages caused by cigarettes and
than two hundred billion dollars are used to treat people
and the
family of the patient
some one has to pay for those treatments and that usually is the
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the amount of tobacco
03 health care cost is not cheap. Something else that is not cheap would be
a week which can
products that people buy which on average is about two hundred eighty dollars
the person
total to be around more than ten thousand dollars a year. Smoking does not just affect

doing it, it also affects anyone nearby and also people who take care of them who have to cover

their expenses. Issues like this can be prevented by finding help for people with an addiction and

helping people stay away from dangerous products like cigarettes.

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It is not clearly understandable why people start to use cigarettes. Some say it is to relieve

pain or stress, or for pleasure, or for doing it just because. On some occasions, people do it only

at social encounters when others are doing it as well. The only real benefit of smoking would be

that smoking helps prevent cartilage and joint deterioration. That is the only researched benefit

that someone would get when they smoke and that does not even compare to all the benefits you

would get if you do not smoke at all. Some benefits would be the prevention of fatal diseases

such as pneumonia, emphysema, and lung cancer. Smoking causes about eighty-four percent of

deaths from lung cancer and eighty-three percent of deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary

disease. Not smoking prevents so many diseases from entering your body. For example, just

recently, it was said that smoking could cause the symptoms of Covid-19 to be worse in the

patients who smoked due to their respiratory system already having an issue with having smoke

in the patient's lungs due to smoking tobacco products. But it is not only the respiratory system

affected by smoking, it also includes the heart, blood vessels, the eyes, mouth, reproductive

organs, bones, bladder, and digestive organs. This means that lung cancer is not the only cancer
 that some one can get
from using cigarettes,
oral cancer and liver cancer are the most common
forms. Honestly, the
list goes on and on
for the benefits of not smoking but people still decide to
continue and researchers
have no idea why but it does not
mean that people do not need help
quitting or that it can not be
prevented.
Some solutions to solve this issue
would be to create more programs and presentations
that could help teach the youth
the dangers of smoking cigarettes so they can stay away from
those products and not have the urge to use
them. These programs would be introduced into
schools where it can most easily access kids and also most benefit the kids. The way it would be

made possible would be through either private funding or government funding given to the

school so they can set up the programs. There are a lot of small but major actions that can be

done to help lower the use of cigarettes, for example, by raising the sales tax on cigarettes which

can lead people to think twice before purchasing such an expensive item. Another example

would be to limit or lower the amount of advertisements that are shown so the temptation of

purchasing or considering using cigarettes can be lower There are many ways to prevent people

from smoking, but what about the people who have been smoking and want to leave the habit of

using it? One solution would be to create more rehab centers or create more rehab programs that

can reach out and help individuals with this addiction and possibly save lives. These solutions

have all been put into play before and it seems that it has worked over the years because the use

of cigarettes has lowered over the past sixteen years with about a seven percent difference based

on every one hundred Americans. That does not change the lethal percentage cigarettes have but

it does lower the number of people who may be affected by the use of cigarettes.

A very extensive and difficult solution would be to pass a bill and get a ban on the

production and sale of cigarettes. It would have a huge impact on everyone because it would
 A major
means unemployment for some.
cause tobacco companies to shut down which also
toll for
significantly lower and also the death
change would be health care costs which would be
smoking
would have would be that second-hand
smokers would lower as well. Another impact it
because
smoke-free zones
would not be a problem and that would also change the legislature for
would even happen
they would serve no use any more due to the ban. The way that this ban
use of cigarettes.
would have to be by creating a bill which then goes on to be a law, that bans the
similar
This idea or the very beginning of the bill would start off with a group of people with
which
ideas which then find a representative to present their bill to the house of representatives,

then goes to a committee then goes through the whole process that any other bill would go

through. After it gets accepted and signed upon, the way this law would be enforced would be by

using law enforcement to enforce this new law and monitor any illegal activity. This would also

mean that tobacco companies will shut down and stop production which would be like cutting

the roots off a plant and stopping this epidemic at its source, Some major complications would

include the removal of the entire product off the market and also enforcing the new law would be

a challenge because it would not be simple. Another complication would be convincing congress

and federal candidates that would be against the bill due to the revenue that tobacco companies

make which is around eight billion two hundred million dollars. Other places or people who

would not benefit from this bill would be bars and casinos whose main customers would be

smokers. But with that much revenue being brought in, who wouldn't want to receive a part of

that money when all you have to do is deny accepting a bill similar to the one that was

presented? There are many small solutions that can reduce the use of cigarettes but to make it

extinct would be nearly impossible.

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After looking at some of the solutions, are there any legitimate and easy solutions that

someonecould do to either prevent or help someone y away from cigarettes? The answer is,

of coursenot. A difficult issue like is does t have an easy solution, it would take a lot of

time, money and effort for rehab progr s to take action in helping others and that would go for

youth programs as well. Creating law tob the use of cigarettes seems far from reality and it

truly is but as long as there are people who are willing to help others, the idea of banning

cigarettes seems less impossible to accomplish.

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