It is said that the consumption of alcohol and tobacco
in our country has increased in the last few years. Nevertheless, these
substances are very harmful for the human health and they are legal. Should the
government modify laws which define their permissibility to make them more restricted?
Firstly, the tobacco can cause lung cancer and
respiratory diseases and the alcohol can cause circulatory problems and
diseases which affect the liver. However, the people who control these
substances still allow its consumption for everyone who is over 18, although
their effects are not very different from the ones caused by the illegal drugs.
Furthermore, the use of these substances makes the
consumers get poorer while the State becomes richer because of the high taxes
they impose in order to get profit from the addiction of the consumers. For
example, if a packet costs 4 euros, the government gets 3.20 euros. Maybe,
that’s the reason why these drugs are still legal.
To sum up, I think that tobacco and alcohol should be
illegal because of their negative effects on the health, but the government
doesn’t ban them because the more people smoke and drink, the more money they
get.
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