Smoking.

Smoking in America is a big problem. But if you ask the question, should all tobacco be banned in the US, I think that's a little bold. I think that advertising tobacco though, should be banned. I think if you smoke, and are addicted, then you know about cigarettes, you don't need big flashy signs to tell you to smoke, because you already do. There doesn't need to be a bunch of ads in the paper, on TV and on giant billboards. Someone dies from smoking ever 10 seconds. Hard to believe? Well believe it. It causes about 400,000 deaths each year. More then car crashes, AIDS, Drug abuse or murders combined. If more people new what was going into their bodies, every-time they smoked, I bet millions would quit. But the tobacco companies don't display this on their ads, they have beautiful young women, sometimes half naked...dancing around or striking a brilliant pose. Now what does that exactly have to do with tobacco? According to quitsmokingsupport.com, Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT. The argument that tobacco companies make ads just to get you to switch brands and not start smoking I think, is a little ridiculous.