Smoking

Summary In the essay "Smoking Is Bad For Everyone So It Should Be Illegal" the author Sally Chen speaks of the problems with the governments involvement in the tobacco industry and the problems with the selling of tobacco to children. Chen starts off by pointing out the views of children who smoke, and the sense that smoking makes them more refined. Although Chen also achnologes the fact that the children understand what they are getting …

…also brings to light on how the laws and regulations forbidding the sales of tobacco to minors are easily be surpassed by children. Furthermore Chen strongly opposes the sales of tobacco and believes that tobacco should be outlawed and that there should be an amendment set against it. Chen, Sally. "Smoking Is Bad For Everyone So It Should Be Banned" Reading and Writing Short Arguments. 2nd Ed. Ed. William Vesterman. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield. 1997. 50-51.