Why do people smoke?
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Introduction Today's increasingly diversified tobacco companies remain dependent on tobacco revenues: Philip Morris derives less than half of its sales but more than two thirds of its profits from a product that is responsible for more than one in every six deaths in the United States. - Alix M. Freedman, 1991 Tobacco has been controversial since the first medical report of tobacco's ill effects at 1665. As we are well aware, the tobacco industry has been facing heavy fire from civilian groups in recent years because the number of disease and death is increased significantly caused by smoking addiction. However, every country and its government appreciate that a huge contribution of levying taxes from cigarette production. Focus on the development of social civilization, is it ethical to ban smoking or let it have its swing? What should we estimate the station of the tobacco industry properly? In this essay we choose Philip...


