Smoking Weed and Tobacco usage essays

Smoking Weed and Tobacco usage essays Smoking is a very significant issue in the world today. Smoking tobacco and marijuana are both important issues in society today. I always see commercials on TV against smoking and why you (especially young kids) shouldnt smoke. I was wondering if these commercials and other advertisements were really telling the truth and if smoking was all as bad as they made it out to be. I will do a lot of research on this topic such as if these ads are really true or if they are expanding the truth or even if they are lying. I will do most of my research on the Internet and maybe an encyclopedia or magazine. I know smoking tobacco is bad for you. I know that it has many negative short and long term effects on its users. I also know that it can be addictive. What I know about marijuana is that it is illegal and is sometimes referred to as the gateway drug that gets you into more harmful and expensive drugs. For a lot of people, this is not true though. I assume that smoking marijuana is not very bad for you because there arent very many things that are bad for you when you smoke it. I know that it does sometimes cause short term memory loss and maybe it makes you paranoid but these symptoms are not present in all users. Smoking tobacco I think, is much more harmful and dangerous because of its known effects even short term such as decreased blood circulation and cold hands and feet. These symptoms happen after only 24 hours after you smoke a cigarette. I also assume that marijuana will be legalized in a very short time because of its wide use and also because there are too many crimes related to marijuana where people are caught with a small amount of the substance but are put in jail for long periods of time. Most marijuana users are harmless to the public and smoking marijuana does not make you a threat to the public, as sometimes drinking alcohol does and that is legal....