Drugs

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Why would anyone want to voluntarily die? In today´s world, some of drugs such as "Molly" and marijuana are becoming more popular. Therefore, danger of drugs is higher as the horrifying number of individuals do not stop risking their lifes by taking them. Drugs are the way to painful death. In the US, 105 people die every day because of drug overdose according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of population does not realise that cigarettes have the drug nicotine in them along with many other chemicals.

The world´s view on this unhealthy habit has changed in the last years. It was considered to be "cool" and fashionable. Now, cigarettes held a totally different position in our life. For instance, a lot of countries such as France, Denmark or Norway published smoking bans in public places. "On 1 February 2007 France prohibited smoking in public places, including offices and schools.

Since 2008, the ban was extend to cover all public places including amongst others, restaurants, dance clubs and cafes." Moreover, graphic warnings are printed on the cigarette packs in order to frighten people and force them to stop smoking. "Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States."[1: EPHA, (http://www.epha.org/a/1941)][2: Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, (http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/)]

"Molly" is almost the same as ecstasy. It is a form of MDMA and it should causes feelings of happiness, energy and satisfaction generally. Attenders of musical festivals enjoy a large amount of it and that´s a great opportunity for drug traffickers to sell the "Molly" of poor quality since it is a profitable business and furthermore, it is composed of the unknown chemicals which have nothing common with ones in the real "Molly" and thus, more users are killed. "The drug's dangers became more...