Article Analysis of Arguments against Smoking
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George Will (240) offers a series of arguments against smoking in an effort to demonstrate the ironies and paradoxes that abound when this topic is introduced. The primary premise offered by Will (241) is that smoking is damaging to one's health and costly not only in terms of human consequences, but also in terms of medical care, lost productivity in the workplace, and other intangible and human and social costs. One of the primary premises advanced by Will (241) is that "the fact that cigarettes are harmful has been broadly understood for several generations and today is almost universally acknowledged." Will offers other premises that identify the irony implicit in the debate over smoking and its effects. First, government subsidizes tobacco farming alongside the treatment of illnesses caused by tobacco consumption, using a treasury that is diminished by revenues lost by decreased productivity linked to 1,164 smoking-related deaths every day. The co
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Approximate Word count = 661
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