Opinion essay: SHOULD GOVERNMENTS MAKE TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL ILLEGAL?

Nowadays people are more than aware of how smoking and drinking alcohol is damaging for human’s health as well as for the environment. Then, why are these substances still legalized?

Personally, I believe that governments should make them illegal or at least put higher prices on those kinds of products.

Firstly, my main reason is that alcohol and tobacco are harmful for health. It is known that a cigarette contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known for cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. 

In addition, an excessive alcohol consumption can have numerous adverse effects on your brain. Furthermore, above more than 45,000 people die from alcohol every year.

Secondly, young people have started to consume those products at really young ages in order to feel older or cooler. That clearly shows how tobacco and alcohol are not strictly regulated as despite the laws, underage people have access to them.

All in all, alcohol and tobacco are damaging for health and are not strictly regulated and that’s why I believe they should be banned.