Opinion Essay - Laura Herrero

OPINION ESSAY

Nowadays, many people drink alcohol and smoke regularly, without realising which are the consequences of doing it. For this reason, there is a debate about whether the government should ban these substances. To my mind, I am convinced that this measure will be beneficial for everybody even though it may upset some people.

Firstly, we all know how harmful is tobacco and alcohol for our health, however, we continue consuming because it is not forbidden; which it is very worrying since there is a great majority that is teenagers. Even when the law bans to buy these substances for people underage, there is not a strict control over it and they can get them easily. Making them illegal for everybody, will guaranty fewer consumers because it will be harder to get it.

On the other hand, drinking and smoking as a habit not only does it hurt our body,  but also it hurts our wallets. The price of tobacco is already expensive and it is only increasing. In my opinion, we spend a lot of money on things that are not useful neither beneficial for us. In addition, they are specially created to make us addicted and making sure, that we will keep consuming it and wasting our money on their business; promoting inevitably capitalism. 

Furthermore, in tobacco’s industry, they use animals to test their products, making them inhale the smoke, which is clearly harmful and sometimes lethal for them. Consequently, when we buy it we are contributing to this animal abuse that sometimes we are not aware of it. Although some companies do not use these methods, the majority does it. For that reason, it should be stopped and prevent the industries from doing more harm.

To sum up, as far as I am concerned, alcohol and tobacco are addictive substances like drugs that are harmful to our health and animals. So, if the government creates a law to make illegal them, I will approve of it. Since their industries are not beneficial economically and morally, especially, when their sale is not well controlled in the present.