Mark Twain once said, “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.”Twain was pointing out how addicting tobacco smoke can be. This hasn’t changed even today. People still have a hard time quitting, and public officials are still struggling with how to conquer the problem. In fact, C. Everett Coop (He used to be the Surgeon General of the United States) said that “smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.” If we banned smoking, all those addicted would revolt. Also, many jobs would be lost, causing them to revolt as well. We’d have a smoke revolution. No, we can’t just ban cigarettes. We need a replacement. To change the ways of smoking forever, we must replace traditional cigarettes with electronic cigarettes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 45 million Americans smoke. One out of five American deaths is caused by smoking. However, smokers aren’t the only ones hurt. Secondhand smoke is a major danger. Therefore, most people realize that smoking is a problem. The problem is that few people see a way to solve the issue. Smokers believe they have the right to smoke. They say it’s their choice. In addition, many people would not want to ban cigarettes because of the effect on sales rates. They are afraid that the economy will not do as well. Tobacco farmers would have no crop to sell. Truckers would lose goods to transport. Factories would lose manufacturing jobs. Merchants lose would sales and jobs. As a result, smokers would have to suffer their addiction. Because so many people benefit from smoking, banning smoking would be virtually impossible. Something else has to be done.
The way to solve the problem is with electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes have recently been produced, and scientists have discovered that they do not have the harmful effects like regular cigarettes do. An electronic cigarette is an electronic inhaler that vaporizes a liquid into a type of mist. This simulates that act of smoking. The electronic cigarette looks like a pen combined with a cigarette. The user can choose the amount of nicotine.
The electric cigarette is a device that is a lot like the cigarette we have today. The electronic cigarettes have nicotine in them, they are the same shape of the regular cigarette, and they are still as addicting as the ones we have today. But it’s not the same; it doesn’t have second hand smoke, and it might not harm the user (scientists are not 100% sure about this fact) It “mocks” smoking, and it has an adjustable amount of nicotine to help people stop smoking by putting less in it every time they use it. If you are wondering what nicotine is it’s what makes a cigarette so addicting. It is a chemical or drug that makes the user feel calm and after the users have it, they want it more.
The way that the electronic cigarettes can stop people from having cancer and dying is doesn’t create second-hand smoke, and it is made to continually reduce the amount of nicotine used. When nicotine reduced, users are not as addicted and won’t want it as much. They will keep decreasing the use until they don’t smoke at all. People who smoke say they have the right to smoke, but they might not be aware of the dangers that it gives to others. With electronic cigarettes second-hand smoke would not happen, so it doesn’t harm others.
The problem with just switching to electronic cigarettes that when traditional cigarettes are no longer used by people, it will effect the jobs and economy. In the beginning, the change would cost the United States a lot of money because a lot of people’s work is related to the cigarette industry. One problem is what do the farmers and their tobacco crops? They would have nothing to grow, and they would have anything to take a big expense to grow a new crop. The way to solve this problem is to give them money to NOT grow tobacco; later the farmers would learn to plant a new crop and get paid for that crop. The government could subsidize their pay and save money in the health care they give to others for cancer treatment.
Another way that electronic cigarettes can help our world is that people will keep them and not throw them on the ground. The pollution would decrease and global warming would decrease
As you can see, the electronic cigarette can stop pollution, stop second-hand smoke, and it would make the world a better place due to the decrease in the amount of smoke in the air. Smoking may be the next thing that gets a way to solved.