Smoking and vaping are popular activities that are both bad for the human body. When they are smoked by a person, nicotine and various other toxic chemicals enter their body.

People smoke due to factors such as stress. People below the poverty line and people with mental illness are more likely to smoke than the average person.

 Between 2011 and 2018, vape devices majorly grew in popularity with middle and high school students. If a person smokes or vapes before their brain fully develops, they are more likely to have an addiction in the future.

Smoking and vaping cause more deaths a year than HIV, illegal drugs, alcohol, automobile accidents, and gun-related incidents combined.

Despite all of this, the FDA cannot regulate what is in tobacco products. This is due to a lawyer hired by the tobacco industry claiming that it would guarantee a national ban on tobacco products, as they would be found to be unsafe.

However, the FDA requires at least 30% of each side of a container of a smoking device (cigarette or vape) to list possible health effects of smoking.

The Tobacco control act was also established. The Tobacco Control Act does not allow sales of tobacco products to minors, vending machine tobacco sales (unless the building is adult only,) sales of packs containing less than 20 cigarettes, and sample cigarettes.

There are possible solutions. E-cigarettes were originally meant to kill an addiction to smoking by giving a smaller dosage of nicotine with each use. However, the design was used to create vape devices.

There are other methods, known as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT.) Certain types of NRT include gum, hard candy, and various other products. However, these products still contain nicotine, which is bad for your body.

Despite these solutions, there is still a significantly large population of smokers. This brings us to our final solution: raising taxes on cigarettes. Raising taxes on these products has been seen to significantly lower the number of people who smoke, especially among the higher-risk people.

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