Cigarettes are one of the most common killers known to mankind. Cigarettes kill approximately 6 million people every year, and that number won't go down until we do something about it. In the twentieth century, smoking killed only 100 million people, while in our century a billion could die. There are many other reasons why we should ban cigarettes, and I will list them. The first reason is because cigarettes are a defective product, meaning it is unreasonably dangerous and kills at least half of its users in the long term. They are made to be addictive. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may require that the nicotine in cigarettes be reduced to make cigarettes less addictive. If they did, when people try to quit it wouldn't be so difficult. Philip Morris created an entire factory to produce the new brand's cigarettes, using critical fluid extraction techniques to achieve a 97 percent reduction in nicotine content, which is what might be needed for a 0.1 nicotine cigarette. %, compared to current values ​​of approximately 2%. So it's not that cigarette companies couldn't produce a cigarette if the FDA wanted to lower the current standard. So why doesn't the FDA do this? With 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. “Smoking first became inhalable with the invention of flue curing, a technique by which the tobacco leaf is heated during fermentation, preserving the sugars naturally present in the unprocessed leaf. Sugars when burned produce acids, which lower the pH of the resulting smoke, making it less harsh and more inhalable. There is a bit of irony in... middle of paper......they hate the fact that they smoke and wish they could quit. This means that 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 percent or 90 percent for people who smoke. All in all, cigarettes have only negative health effects. According to the CDC, men who smoke die 13.2 years earlier than men who don't smoke and women die 14.5 years earlier than women who don't 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-tre-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/legalcode