21 to Smoke

Smoking is legal at the age of eighteen, but you cannot gamble or buy alcohol until the age of twenty-one. In my opinion smoking is just as bad as gambling and alcohol consumption, if not worse, thats why the legal age of smoking should be at twenty-one. Starting smoking at an early age can lead to multiple complications later on in life. If someone starts smoking at a young age, it can become addicting and it can lead to many health issues as an adult or the possibilities of complications can even start at an early stage of one’s life. The addiction can lead to cancer, amputations of different body parts, and be harmful in other ways. Although the cigarette companies know that their product is putting many lives at risk, they still make their profits by killing and hurting the people and we are the ones who help contribute to our deaths by buying the cigarettes and encouraging the cigarettes companies to make more. Therefore if we can raise the age which allows people to buy cigarettes now, we can help the people from having fewer health issues and maybe even reduce the number of smokers in the future.