While Katie suggested this topic to me awhile ago, I haven’t written about it until now because I was having difficulty figuring out which angle to take. That’s when I realized – there is nothing good about cigarettes, so any and every angle would do!
With all of their negative consequences, it’s absolutely astounding that companies are allowed to continue to produce cigarettes and that people continue to smoke them. Not only are cigarettes known to cause asthma, emphysema, lung cancer, and numerous other oral and respiratory diseases, they are also one of the most littered items on the planet. Nobody throws their cigarette butts away (which is arguably kind of a good thing since no one wants to start a trash can fire), they just drop them on the ground or throw them out of the car window.
Several diseases have been eradicated from the world in the past, such as smallpox and polio. Let’s treat cigarettes and smoking and the diseases that result like smallpox and polio, and get rid of them too. It’ll even be a lot easier than the aforementioned diseases, since we know the suspect and how to eliminate it.
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