Subject : argumentative essay

Should the smoking age be changed to 21?

Smoking is a really bad habit that engulf millions of people each year and is killing
many lives despite attempts by the government and people trying to stop it. Smoking is the
cause of many cancers and causes permanent damage to the human body. So why don’t we
change the legal age to have cigarettes? Sadly, this idea will not only work against itself but
also against nature. First of all one of the biggest facts of the natural world is survival of the
fittest, so if there dying its natural selection taking its course. Also the feeling of rebellion is
one wanted by most older teens so pushing the higher probably going to make people want to
have cigarettes more when they are teens anyway so why bother? Finally there are several
points that people bring up commonly that are untru or simply unintelegent.

The first and major reason why the smoking age shouldn’t be moved from from 18 to
21 is that we have so many warning campaigns that they know the risks and its natural
selection taking its course. Natural selection is a matter of life whwhere only the fittest
survive first penned by Charles Darwin in 1859. Basically, the strongest genes will survive
like a giraffe’s long neck if there is a gene pool where they have shorter necks then they won’t
be able to eat meaning they won’t be able to survive meaning the gene pool will die so the
species will live on only with the strongest gene pool. How does this relate to smokers well
their genes have probably substance use disorders or SUD’s. Now it is possible to say that
maybe there isn’t anything warning them so it isn’t natural selection its lack of knowledge.
But there are countless campaigns saying that it is bad. That even when you buy a cigarette
there are warnings on the packet so it is natural selection because it is killing off people who
either can’t read or people who don’t believe in the facts that science is giving you. This is
very similar to the anti-vaccine debate on natural selection. This has nothing to with the age
change but changing it would be postponing natural selection but even if you did, they would
still get them.

Another argument is as a teen you crave rebellion, mainly because one of the major
parts of the brain is rebuilding and you crave to belong to a pack. So, if smoking seems cool
and maybe might impress some girls then even with this pointless law in the first place it
won’t reduce the number of people smoking. The part of the brain is the prefrontal cortex that
is rebuilding so teenagers use the amygdala to make choices in life. The problem is this part
of the brain makes many different things like emotions, impulses, aggression and instinctive
behaviour. So, when a teen is making decisions. They are using this part of the brain basically
meaning they are somewhat handicapped when making decisions because they are making
choices on emotions, impulses, aggression and instinctive behaviour. Teens start to date in
this period because it was instinct in history to start mating at this age. This means no matter
that teens will start in adolescence no matter what you do so the ones that can really think
through what they are doing when they smoke won’t smoke. This means they have the
toughest genes thus meaning the survival of the fittest. There are many pointlessly stupid
arguments saying that we should move the smoking age up to 21 but this is purely idiotic.

Finally, there are many different arguments against this topic but they are all incorrect.
One of the biggest arguments is that the stuff can kill you, which is exactly the same reason
why we should keep it. So these people ignorant to the people showing its bad will die which
is good because this is natural selection taking its course. The gene of not believing science
and not looking at the signs will slowly die out meaning only the fittest survive. The final
argument that they use incorrectly is that most smokers start in adolescence. So they don’t
know the signs that would lead to natural selection aren’t there so it would be completely
unfair. That they die because a parent did it so they got addicted but this is untrue if his parent
was a smoker 2 things are highly likely: