Smoking is a habit that claims many lives and is a great drain on health services. One way to combat smoking would be to make it illegal. What are the pros and cons of such government policy? What alternative strategies can you suggest to combat smoking?

It is widely known that smoking is one of the most crucial problems of the twenty-first century. Some
people
consider that the government should make smoking illegal to reduce
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number of deaths and diseases which are caused by cigarette consumption. In my opinion, it is too radical
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, and there may be other ways to deal with it. So, in
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I am going to provide some possible solutions and prove them by several arguments.
To begin
with, it is necessary to understand that refusing
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cigarettes is a long and difficult process, some
people
spend a lot of years on
this
.
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, if smoking becomes illegal immediately, it will lead to
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significant outrage among humans. In my way of thinking, there are needed more slight changes,
for instance
, if the government includes additional taxes on
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each sold package, it will decrease the demand and reduce the number of smoking
people
, because it will
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expensive for some part of society. There is not only
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way which can be used to deal with
this
issue.
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also
may be done by making the smoking process less comfortable.
For example
, if there
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a strict law that prohibits use the
cigarettes
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in the majority of public places,
such
as streets, bus and train stations, taxes, some buildings and others, smokers
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not have an opportunity to smoke and
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refuse from
this
harmful habit. In conclusion, I would like to say that there
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lot of different ways how we can deal with the smoking problem. It
also
should be
noticed
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that the solution does not have to be fast and radical
such
as making cigarettes illegal,
instead
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this
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the governments may just add
the
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additional taxes or reduce the number of places where
people
can smoke.
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