Essay, Research Paper: "Smoking Is Bad For Everyone So It Should Be Illegal"

Summary
In the essay "Smoking Is Bad For Everyone So It Should Be Illegal" the author
Sally Chen speaks of the problems with the governments involvement in the tobacco
industry and the problems with the selling of tobacco to children. Chen starts off by
pointing out the views of children who smoke, and the sense that smoking makes them
more refined. Although Chen also achnologes the fact that the children understand what
they are getting into, and the effects smoking has on them. Furthermore Chen shows the
attitude of the government, movie stars, and tobacco corporations toward their views
about the changing of the views that society should have toward tobacco. In explaining
the problems with the government and tobacco sales Chen indicates the reasons politicians
rise taxes on tobacco products, which in all creates an endless circle, helping them stay in
office longer. Chen even shows that the taxing of tobacco is a meaningless waste of
money, going toward the politicians favorite programs and does little to lower tobacco
sales. She also brings to light on how the laws and regulations forbidding the sales of
tobacco to minors are easily be surpassed by children. Furthermore Chen strongly
opposes the sales of tobacco and believes that tobacco should be outlawed and that there
should be an amendment set against it.
Chen, Sally. "Smoking Is Bad For Everyone So It Should Be Banned" Reading and
Writing Short Arguments. 2nd Ed. Ed. William Vesterman. Mountain View, CA:
Mayfield. 1997. 50-51.


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