雅思范文：香烟合法

 　　Essay Topic:

　　Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "Smoking tobacco like other dangerous drugs should be made illegal."  Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.

　　Example Writing:

　　Smoking kills millions of people and will continue to; however, tobacco use is legal in almost all countries.  Anti-smoking campaigns have in the past decades won many battles without winning the war.  Like it or not, the reality is that cigarettes are here to stay.

　　It is strongly recommended that smoking tobacco should be banned in order to protect public health and social environment.  For one thing, the problem of cigarette smoking is nicotine¹, meaning tobacco use is addictive² like cocaine³.  As an addiction⁴, smoking harms nearly every organ in the body.  In addition to being a health problem, smoking is a social issue affecting the freedom to breathe clean air.  For that matter, the logic⁵ is that smoking is optional,  but breathing is not.  Thus, smoking bans must exist to prevent breathing people from the second-hand⁶ smoke.

　　Conversely, smokers⁷ have rights, too, as long as tobacco use remains⁸ not illegal.  Imagine that cigarettes were invented today, all tobacco products would probably be made illegal like, say, cocaine.  Of course, this is certainly not the case because tobacco is a visible product but cocaine marketing⁹ goes underground.  Legally speaking, therefore, a pack of cigarettes may be seen as legal as a loaf of bread or a bottle of wine, except that tobacco is paying more tax.  Based on this argument, banning cigarettes demands having to outlaw¹⁰ tobacco sales in the first place, which seems highly unlikely.  No wonder, smoking has not been stopped; it has only moved elsewhere.

　　To sum up, it is a matter of opinion whether smoking tobacco like other dangerous drugs should be made illegal or not.  The war against cigarettes will not come to an end anytime soon, while 'smoking rights' are only down but far from out. Smoking kills slowly, and many people know that; but so what,  who is in a hurry?

1 nicotine   

n.(化)尼古丁，烟碱

参考例句：

• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily.许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily.许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。

2 addictive   

adj.(吸毒等)使成瘾的，成为习惯的

参考例句：

• The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
• Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。

3 cocaine   

n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）

参考例句：

• That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
• Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

4 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

5 logic   

n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性

参考例句：

• What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
• I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。

6 second-hand   

adj.用过的，旧的，二手的

参考例句：

• I got this book by chance at a second-hand bookshop.我赶巧在一家旧书店里买到这本书。
• They will put all these second-hand goods up for sale.他们将把这些旧货全部公开出售。

7 smokers   

吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily. 许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
• Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。

8 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

9 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

10 outlaw   

n.歹徒，亡命之徒；vt.宣布…为不合法

参考例句：

• The outlaw hid out in the hills for several months.逃犯在山里隐藏了几个月。
• The outlaw has been caught.歹徒已被抓住了。