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Although it is a freedom to use tobacco while some people think it should
be made illegal as the same way as other drugs. To what extent do you agree or
disagree? What’s your opinion?
Medically, tobacco has been told distinguishingly from drugs. Nevertheless,
there has been an on-going argument about whether or not tobacco should be made
illegal as drugs. After close inspection, I would like to support the
legalization of tobacco for the following reasons.
The main reason is that tobacco is an absolutely different concept from
drugs in terms of the toxicity. Drugs, such as heroin, can drive people who take
it insane and out of mind. And the damage is both mental and physical. In
contrast, despite all those tobacco-related diseased, tobacco do far less harm
to people than drugs do. What’s more, in our daily life, many other things are
doing potential damage to people. For instance, chemical detergent polluted the
underground water and vegetable, causing the toxin accumulating in our body.
Therefore, judging only by the number of diseases tobacco will bring won’t be a
reasonable method; we can’t equate tobacco with drugs.
In the second place, smoking has been part of life of many people. Most
male smokers admit that they will get refreshed after taking a cigarette,
especially when a hard work is just over. Some old people smoke just for
relaxation and killing the time. Lao She, a famous Chinese litterateur, said
that he wouldn’t have got inspiration until smoking a cigarette. And,
surprisingly, he has lived a long life of 92 years! It’s evident that the
saying: smoking will shorten people’s life is unnecessarily true.
What is still worth mentioning is that tobacco has been a pillar industry
in some countries. For those economies, a majority of trade volume owe to the
export of tobacco. Besides, the sum of taxes handed in by tobacco businesses is
huge and can be used in the domestic instruction. Suppose that, some day,
tobacco is forbidden and made illegal, which means a collapse of the gigantic
industry and millions of laid-off workers.
From what has been cited above, we may safely draw the conclusion that
tobacco can never ever made illegal. However, there are still some efforts we
can make: printing the words—smoking is harmful to your health—on the package of
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:23:20