Why the
production and sale of cigarettes should be legal.
By Thang Mawi
The
World Health Organization states that about 2 billions smokers around the world
including child smokers. Smoking is the leading cause of many different health issues
such as cancers, heart and lung disease within our society. Public health
policies are attempting to producing and selling cigarette. However, these
people tend to ignore that the positive outcome of cigarette business bring to
the society. They also falsely believe that prohibition and selling cigarette
will lead people to adopt a healthier living environment. Because they do not
think about the consequence; the potential effects of a full-scale ban, but
even existing regulation an economic threat.
Firstly,
I want to state some advantage of being legal. The government the world receive
huge amount of taxes from cigarettes companies. This provides fund which are
used for building infrastructure like schools, hospitals and other public
amenities. Moreover, this money was used to help fund the welfare program. Many
INGO and Ngo also receive a lot of money their social welfare program. Thus a
lot of people have got the benefit of it.
Now
I would like to express the consequence. I already have mentioned above that
the governments receive big profits from levying taxes on cigarettes or tobacco
companies. If the production and sale of cigarettes is illegal, the government
will lose a huge income of the government and, this will affect the government
welfare program. A further point is INGO and
NGO
that are supported by tobacco business will face the problem of fund for their
social welfare projects. The effect is the people who are in their project will
face a thousand of problems.
The
cigarettes business is one of the most profitable businesses in the world. So
the next point is there are a million of people who work in the cigarette
companies and industries, and there also are over tens of thousands tobacco
farmer throughout the world, particularly in poorer countries like Zimbabwe or
India. Now, I believe that you understand that it creates many jobs for these
people. If it is a full-scale ban, those who work in cigarette will lose their
jobs. There will appear a lot of unemployment’s problem and rate of unemployment
will increase. Is there the better ways for solve a million of unemployment?
The last point, being illegal, is impossible
in particularly. Many smokers know that if they smokers know that if they smoke
too many cigarettes, we get many health problems. However, they still choose
smoke without worrying about their future health. So even if it is illegal,
they will try to get with many ways. As a result, there will e smuggling
cigarette and the government will need to stop this selling and smoking illegal,
and will have to spend a lot of money for this project.
In
conclusion, generally, if it is illegal, the income of government will decrease
because of losing taxes. The social welfare projects of INGO and NGO that were
support by tobacco companies will stop and the local people will face many
problems. Can those who stand in illegal solve completely this problem and
provide them to survive? In addition, millions of employment will be
unemployment. Who will find job for millions of unemployment?
References;
https://www.who.int
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