10 - Anti Smoking

"The Mark of your Life"

I want to strongly promote the dangers of smoking to young children and teenagers around the world; however, I not only want to inform, but I want to take severe action. Over half a century ago, citizens did not have the privilege to the hazardous effects of smoking, and as a result, huge parts of the population took up the previously dubbed “glamorous” habit of smoking. Fortunately, today we are in the middle of an information age where enlightening the general public about the health risk of products is an everyday occurrence. Surprisingly, 420,000 Americans died from smoking alone and 2,000 teens became addicted to cigarettes last year.

Despite the extent of awareness programs and campaigns to stop smoking, the deadly habit is still prevalent in America, and even more strongly all over the world. I want to discontinue the sales of tobacco for good this time. This is the only way deaths of Americans from smoking will cease. I want to create a movement so well-built and so supported that tobacco companies would have to do more than write a warning label on their products, but downright stop selling them.

The majority of our youth today is so swayed by peer pressure and negative parts of the media that a mass decrease of smoking is not in sight. On a brighter note, the movement against smoking is growing, and these voices must grow louder and a battle must pursue. I intensely advocate more than the awareness of our culture must be done to stop smoking.

We have already aired dying lung cancer patients with tubes in their throats pleading the public to quit smoking, but they do not. We have already deployed anti-smoking advertisements about the health effects of smoking and the undeniable fact that smoking will cause lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and heart attacks. Nonetheless, even with this ominous fate, Americas continue lighting up! The vast majorities of today’s smokers are fully aware of the advertisements.