This year alone, cigarettes will kill over 420,000 Americans, and many more will suffer from cancerous, circulatory, and respiratory system diseases. These horrible illnesses were originally thought to have originated from cigarettes. Recently the Food and Drug Administration declared nicotine, the main chemical additive in cigarettes, addictive. This explains why smokers continue to use cigarettes even though smokers are aware of the health dangers with smoking. Although smokers make up the majority of people who suffer …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…part, which would require many things. First, manufacturers would have to disclose the 700 chemical additives in cigarettes. Second, the level of harmful chemical additives would be reduced or prohibited. Cigarette companies would be required to warn of the addictive nature of nicotine, restrict tobacco advertising and promotion, and control the level of nicotine cigarettes contain. As we near a complete ban on cigarettes, there will be many shortcomings, but eventually cigarette sales will be stopped.