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According to https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/... Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, including rheumatoid arthritis.
Smokers are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer, and diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels. Smoking causes strokes, and coronary heart disease. Heart Disease, and Cancer were the two leading causes of deaths in the United States in 2019, according to CDC statistics.
Banning cigarettes would not only prevent a majority of current smokers, it would also prevent potential future smokers, and teenagers from experimenting with cigarettes which as a result would save more lives.
Smoking would also reduce a majority of hospitalities and deaths caused by smoking. Banning cigarettes would reduce medical costs, and expenses by a large percentage. If cigarettes were banned this would also prevent a large number of home fires, and outdoor fires because according to https://www.ssvfd.org/safety/smoking-fire-safety/ Smoking materials caused 5% of reported home fires, 21% of home fire deaths, 10% of home fire injuries, and 6% of the direct property damage from home fires. A blanket ban on smoking would also aid in protecting the environment because according to https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/... 39% of smokers, equivalent to 3.6million in the UK, admitted to throwing a cigarette butt down a drain within the past month. 11% of smokers do not consider cigarette butts to be litter.
Although the smoking ban would be a great idea, some people have still argued with the smoking ban (often smokers themselves).
According to https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/1/78 Without the cultivation of tobacco, manufacture of tobacco products, and distribution and sale of products, a country's economy will suffer devastating economic consequences. Jobs will be lost, incomes will fall, tax revenues will plummet, and trade surpluses will veer dangerously in the direction of deficits.
If tobacco were to vanish tomorrow, as a result there would be many positive impacts on the environment. There would be a 5% reduction in global deforestation, because almost 500,000 acres a year are destroyed due to tobacco farming. There would be fewer pesticides and chemicals causing soil, environmental, and water pollution, and fewer fires in general.
The reason that the #UK #Government will not introduce a blanket ban on smoking is simple, 'REVENUE' because according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/284329/tobacco-duty-united-kingdom-hmrc-tax-receipts/ In 2019/20, tobacco duty tax receipts in the United Kingdom amounted to approximately 8.8 billion British pounds, compared with 9.29 billion pounds in the previous financial year.
A new report shows that the six trillion cigarettes are produced yearly contaminating the environment through climate change, water, and land use, and toxicity. The devastating impact of the tobacco industry on human health is well known.
According to https://www.gov.uk/... People who smoke generally have an increased risk of contracting respiratory infection and of more severe symptoms once infected. Coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms may therefore be more severe for smokers.
Dwayne Hards
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