Smoking Cigarettes-A Fatal Choice

Last year a new law was signed in the USA by President Barack Obama. This law will help the state regulate tobacco companies’ activities. From June it will start a new campaign where all the Food and Drug Administration will have to show the ingredients that are used in the production of their goods. Of course this is essential for everybody but not for those that manufacture these products because they will lose money.

At the moment there is already a declining rate of smoking in the United States.

In the USA the number of those that are smoking cigarettes is getting smaller. Recently a report has been presented by the Associated Press; they say that 20.6 percent of American adults are smoking cigars. This means it is better than 10 years ago when the percentage was 24.

The raising taxes, health problems caused by smoking and smoking bans are cutting in the number of cigarette smoking. All the efforts should be done in this direction. For example in South Carolina the taxes for cigarettes are very low, and the problem of smoking would be easy to solve if they were bigger. Even if there would be made a raise by 50 cents, everyone would feel the expenses and they would quit smoking.

This law will make every company reveal the ingredients that are put in their products. A big attention will be paid to the harmful ingredients. This action will happen by June 2011.

Lawrence R. Deyton is the director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. He said that it is a very well known fact that smoking cigarettes is bad for the health of people and can cause cancer. The best choice made for every smoker is giving up on them. And start a new way of living a healthy life.

This law gives a legal right to control a product that is legal on the national and international markets. The new law lets the government asks more warnings on cigarettes, can forbid some ingredients that are bad for the health and the candy flavored cigarettes. We have a real concern about the smoking habit.

There are a lot of persons that buy cigarettes and don’t care about their prices because they enjoy smoking.

Anti-tobacco advocates agree with the new law and with the fact that it allows everyone know what they smoke and the effects that all of these have on them. The harmful ingredients can provoke different illnesses and make you cigarettes’ addictive. Cigarettes will still be dangerous even if there will be written that contains less bad ingredients.

A positive effect is happening in the whole world because people give up smoking without all of these restrictions; they realized that is bad for their health. Anti tobacco advocates should continue the same direction and make the government raise the taxes for cigarettes, for example in states like South Carolina.

But more educative programs should be implemented in the states. This way adults and youngsters will realize that smoking can be fatal for anyone.