Cigarettes are one of the most common killers known to mankind. Cigarettes kill around 6 million people every year, and that number won't go down if we do something. In the 20th century, smoking killed only 100 million people, while a billion could die from it during our century. There are several other reasons why we should ban cigarettes, and I will list them. The first reason is that cigarettes are a defective product, meaning they are excessively dangerous, killing at least half of its long-term users. They are made to be addictive. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may require that the nicotine content of cigarettes be reduced to make cigarettes less addictive. If they did that, then when people tried to quit, it wouldn't be so difficult. Philip Morris created an entire factory to make its next cigarette brand, using critical fluid extraction techniques to achieve a 97% reduction in nicotine content, which is what's happening. might be needed for a cigarette with 0.1% nicotine, down from current values ​​of around 2%. So it's not like cigarette companies couldn't make a cigarette if the FDA wanted to lower the current standard. So why isn't the FDA doing this? Despite all my research, I have yet to find an answer to this question. Cigarettes are also defective because they were designed to produce inhalable smoke. Tobacco smoke was almost never inhaled before the 19th century; it was too hard. “Smoke became inhalable with the invention of flue curing, a technique by which the tobacco leaf is heated during fermentation, thereby preserving the sugars naturally present in the unprocessed leaf. Sugars, when burned, produce acids that lower the pH of the resulting smoke, making it less harsh and more inhalable. There's a bit of irony in the middle of paper...they hate the fact that they smoke and wish they could quit. Which means cigarettes are different from alcohol or marijuana. Only about 10 to 15 percent of people who drink alcohol become alcoholics, compared to addiction rates of 80 to 90 percent for smokers. Overall, cigarettes only have negative health effects. According to the CDC, men who smoke die 13.2 years earlier than men who do not smoke and women die 14.5 years earlier than women who do not smoke. These are the reasons why I believe cigarettes should be illegal. Works Cited. http://www.livestrong.com/article/248643-10-reasons-why-smoking-is-bad/ http://www.livestrong.com/article/207919-three-reasons-why-smoking-should- be banned/ http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/22/suppl_1/i27.full http://www.livescience.com/26580-cigarettes-illegal.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by - nc/3.0/legal code