Tobacco, mainly in the form of cigarettes, is one of the most widely-used drugs in the world. Over a billion adults legally smoke tobacco every day. The long-term health costs are high – both for smokers themselves, and for the wider community in terms of healthcare costs and lower productivity. Do governments have a legitimate role to legislate to protect citizens from the harmful effects of their own decisions to smoke, or are such decisions up to the individual?

Smoking has been long studied for its deleterious

health

effects

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yet it remains the top legally consumed drug in the world.

While

the perspectives about smoking regulations vary widely, I agree that

tobacco

should be subjected to a firm regulatory overweight by

governments

, as I would argue in

this

essay.

Firstly

, the main reason for strict legislation lies in the necessity to protect

the

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society as a whole from

tobacco

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harmful effects. Individuals who are heavy smokers not only damage their

health

but

also

affect the

health

of young

people

and categories at risk; passive smoke and other compounds that are released by smoking have been shown to increase the probability of lung cancer, not only to the direct

tobacco

consumers

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but

also

to

people

who live in close contact with them.

Thus

, nations with prominent welfare policies are facing the consequences of smoking, through increased healthcare costs; given

this

scenario,

governments

have the moral imperative to protect all

the

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citizens from

health

issues.

Secondly

,

together with

the

health

damages by

tobacco

,

governments

are responsible

also

to protect

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individuals from a heavy addiction which again

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people

's mental

health

and life balance.

This

is because

tobacco

reduces the productivity of

people

who depend on it and should be treated as a drug and, in several cases,

also

prohibited. Notably, countries

such

as Italy and England, are in the stage of banning

tobacco

production to protect

people

from addictions and

this

has shown to be a wise decision for the nations that have relieved their inner issues. In conclusion, I agree that

governments

should regulate the use of

tobacco

due to

the potential

health

issues that it causes and its addictive properties. I recommend nations

to

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adopt an aggressive strategy to prevent

people

from abusing

tobacco

and

reducing

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the

damages

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that it may cause to

the

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mental and physical

health

.