雅思范文：香烟合法

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "Smoking tobacco like other dangerous drugs should be made illegal."  Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.

　　Example Writing:

　　Smoking kills millions of people and will continue to; however, tobacco use is legal in almost all countries.  Anti-smoking campaigns have in the past decades won many battles without winning the war.  Like it or not, the reality is that cigarettes are here to stay.

　　It is strongly recommended that smoking tobacco should be banned in order to protect public health and social environment.  For one thing, the problem of cigarette smoking is nicotine¹, meaning tobacco use is addictive² like cocaine³.  As an addiction⁴, smoking harms nearly every organ in the body.  In addition to being a health problem, smoking is a social issue affecting the freedom to breathe clean air.  For that matter, the logic⁵ is that smoking is optional,  but breathing is not.  Thus, smoking bans must exist to prevent breathing people from the second-hand⁶ smoke.

　　Conversely, smokers⁷ have rights, too, as long as tobacco use remains⁸ not illegal.  Imagine that cigarettes were invented today, all tobacco products would probably be made illegal like, say, cocaine.  Of course, this is certainly not the case because tobacco is a visible product but cocaine marketing⁹ goes underground.  Legally speaking, therefore, a pack of cigarettes may be seen as legal as a loaf of bread or a bottle of wine, except that tobacco is paying more tax.  Based on this argument, banning cigarettes demands having to outlaw¹⁰ tobacco sales in the first place, which seems highly unlikely.  No wonder, smoking has not been stopped; it has only moved elsewhere.

　　To sum up, it is a matter of opinion whether smoking tobacco like other dangerous drugs should be made illegal or not.  The war against cigarettes will not come to an end anytime soon, while 'smoking rights' are only down but far from out. Smoking kills slowly, and many people know that; but so what,  who is in a hurry?

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