Dear Tobacco Company 'Persuasive Essay'

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Dear tobacco company,

Why do you insist on selling cigarettes? This question should be asked to tobacco

companies everywhere. Why do people buy cigarettes? There are many questions we can ask

smokers and their providers. Millions of people are dying every day from tobacco products.

Cigarettes can cause cancer in your lungs and mouth. The cancer is very deadly, millions die

from smoking related diseases each year.

Second hand smoke can be worse for you than smoking itself. At least when your

smoking you have a filter to block some of the 200+ chemicals that are in a cigarette.

Second hand smoke is the full effect of all the harsh chemicals in smoking straight into your

lungs so the effects are even greater than smoking. Smoking causes breathing problems

such as emphysema and asthma just to name a few. It also causes three known cancers like

throat, lung, mouth and perhaps many more. Smoking causes your immune system to weaken

the longer you smoke, so you more likely to get very sick and take longer to get over a common

cold. Smoking makes your breath really stink and it turns your fingers yellow.

So tell me, why should you sell cigarettes? Is the money so great that you forget you can't

replace your mom, dad, or your best friend? The danger list goes on and on..., but for now you

will sell cigarettes to people and worry about the rest later, Smoking is one of the most addictive

drugs out there and it kills millions a year. Thats still alright with you? I'm sorry, saddened and

sickened by this fact that is why, I will never smoke.

Cigarette smoke contains 4,000 chemical constituents and more than 40 of them are
known to cause cancer in humans. Some experts say that it's usually not the nicotine that
kills but these other chemicals… Here are just a few ingredients you can find in cigarette smoke:
Acetone, Generally used as solvent such as nail ...