SWA 22

ETS (environmental tobacco smoke) is poisoning our environment. Cigarettes are known to be lethal, and the second hand smoke that smokers produce has serious risks for those around them. Marijuana, a substance whose natural compounds has never directly killed anyone, given them cancer, caused them lung or heart failure, or given them a myocardial infarction, is illegal. Cigarettes, which kill around 5.4 million people a year directly from their usage, are legal. I propose that cigarette production, ownership, and production should be illegal to save lives that would otherwise be taken as a result of smoking.

Working Thesis - Cigarettes should be outlawed entirely due to their highly addictive and lethal qualities.