In the United States an estimated 26 million men and 22.7 million women are smokers.

These people are at higher risk of heart attack and stroke than non-smokers(nhis.5). Do non-smokers have influence on smokers, by informing smokers on the risks they are taking by smoking? Or the damage they are inflicting on their lungs, and bodies? Most smokers are blind to attempts made by researches, and non-smokers because they already know they risk of smoking but believe it won’t happen to them. Although smokers are targeted by non-smokers as a inconsiderate “minority” non-smokers have no real influence on smokers quitting.

In this essay King brings up important variables that have influenced her smoking habit to begin. King brings up misanthropes- The hatred of smoking is the most common form of misanthropes(para.8). Passive Americans are brought into the picture as picky. Non-smokers believe that they are victims, that smokers take advantage of them. Things such as the government claiming that people not smoking would effect the pension system, medicare, and social security. Yet smokers still buying cigarettes would ease financial burdens(para.13). Numerous campaigns h

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