Assertion – Cigarette smoking should be illegal.

1. Cigarette smoking is very addictive and the only way to prevent it is to make it illegal to buy/sell in public places

2. Cigarette smoking causes cancer and causes approx. 480,000 deaths every year .That’s about 1 out of every 5 deaths

3. Smoking is estimated to increase the risk of -

a. Coronary heart disease by 2 – 4 times.

b. Stroke 2 – 4 times

c. Of men having lung cancer by 25 times.

d. Of women having lung cancer by 25.7 times.

e. Smoking causes over all diminished health.

4. Smoking is bad for the many who buy it , and people buy a lot of what is bad for them (cigarettes),and so it is basically killing yourself if you are addicted to smoking

5. Smoking cigarettes causes cancer in nearly every single body part, and again ().

Evidence – http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/datastatistics/factsheets/healtheffects/effectscig_smoking/index.htm