Tobacco: Risky Business

Tobacco has become a huge issue in our economy today. Although the tobacco businesses are one of the most profitable businesses in the United States alone, and they make billions and billions of dollars, smoking is causing people to be checked into hospitals. This is creating over a billion dollars a year for hospital expenses due to health risks cause by smoking which includes, bronchitis, lung cancer, strep throat, mouth cancer, and much more. Our economy and the workers in the united States are having millions of dollars taken from them because of the harmful effects and smoking and the tobacco businesses are just laughing in the distance.

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