雅思大作文模板：烟草是毒品吗?

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　　Introduction

　　Since the discovery of tobacco related to a number of health problems, an increasing number of people have called for prohibiting smoking. It is undeniable that still a considerable amount of smokers exist in this world. I would like to examine the advantages and disadvantages of smoking cigarettes as following and then offer my own opinion.

　　Body1

　　There are some advantages to taking tobacco. First, tobacco industry contributes a great proportion of revenue to the nation. Extremely high taxation imposed on tobacco yielding and cigarette manufacturing has released the financial burden for both the government and the individual taxpayer generation by generation. Second, the soothing effects of smoking has been confirmed by ordinary smokers; particularly those who have hard-brain-working jobs are in favor of it; they claim that smoking cigarettes can make them calm and stimulate brain cells to work more efficiently. Finally, cigarettes play an important role in social activities.

　　Body2

　　On the other hand, smoking demonstrates numerous negative effects. Initially, nicotine may bring takers a number of diseases. Second-hand smoking also does harm to your health. Moreover, hatred from non-smokers always grow against smokers hence some conflicts arise frequently. We then look at the statistics showing that thousands of fire accidents worldwide occur each year due to the litter of non-extinguished cigarette ends, not to mention the related deaths and losses. Last but not least, expenses have to be taken into consideration. Fine cigarettes are not cheap. If you get addicted to them, your daily amount of cigarette consumption will increase inevitably, emptying your pocket money.

　　Conclusion

　　After all, the above demerits and merits of using tobacco cannot possibly justify tobacco being listed as illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin, which can extremely affect the nervous system hence to ruin a persons health very soon as well as to rise crime rates dramatically; I suggest more restricted smoking areas be planned so as not to violate non-smokers rights.