话题：

Some people claim that using tobacco has brought severe social problems and smoking should be banned. To what extent do you agree with the above statement?

一些人声称使用烟草带来了严重的社会问题，应该禁止吸烟。你在多大程度上同意上述说法？

吸烟雅思作文范文：

Since the discovery of tobacco related to a number of health problems, an increasing number of people have called for prohibiting smoking. It is undeniable that still a considerable amount of smokers exist in this world. I would like to examine the advantages and disadvantages of smoking cigarettes as following and then offer my own opinion.

There are some advantages to taking tobacco.(topic sentence) First, tobacco industry contributes a great proportion of revenue to the nation. Extremely high taxation imposed on tobacco yielding and cigarette manufacturing has released the financial burden for both the government and the individual taxpayer generation by generation. Second, the soothing effects of smoking has been confirmed by ordinary smokers; particularly those who have hard-brain-working jobs are in favor of it; they claim that smoking cigarettes can make them calm and stimulate brain cells to work more efficiently. Finally, cigarettes play an important role in social activities.

On the other hand, smoking demonstrates numerous negative effects.(topic sentence) Initially, nicotine may bring takers a number of diseases. Second-hand smoking also does harm to your health. Moreover, hatred from non-smokers always grow against smokers hence some conflicts arise frequently. We then look at the statistics showing that thousands of fire accidents worldwide occur each year due to the litter of non-extinguished cigarette ends, not to mention the related deaths and losses. Last but not least, expenses have to be taken into consideration. Fine cigarettes are not cheap. If you get addicted to them, your daily amount of cigarette consumption will increase inevitably, emptying your pocket money.

After all, so far no direct evidence has been provided that smoking can definitely result in takers' death of lung cancer, and those fire accidents are the result of carelessness or irresponsibility of the smokers, not tobacco to be laid blames. Also, spending pocket money can never be considered as a financial burden. In addition, I suggest more restricted smoking areas be planned so as not to violate non-smokers' rights. After weighing the pros and cons of using tobacco, I, for one, am against the act to ban smoking.

重难点词汇学习：

discovery

释义

n.发现，发觉; （剧情的）发展; 被发现的事物; [法]显示证据;

大小写变形:Discovery

The discovery of distillation is usually accredited to the Arabs of the 11th century.

通常认为，蒸馏法是阿拉伯人在11世纪发明的。

The discovery was incidental to their main research.

这一发现是他们主要研究中的附带收获。

a highly significant discovery

有重大意义的发现

considerable 

释义

adj.相当大（或多）的; 该注意的，应考虑的;

There is considerable pressure on teenagers to conform.

年轻人被大力要求守规矩。

This resulted in a considerable loss to the exchequer.

这使国库遭受了重大损失。

a man of considerable intellect

相当有才智的人

cigarette

释义

n.纸烟，香烟;

He singed his hair as he tried to light his cigarette.

他点烟时把头发给燎了。

Over coffee, she lit a cigarette, her eyes daring him to comment.

喝咖啡时，她点燃了一支烟，用挑衅的眼神看着他，谅他也不敢吭声。

Her cigarette glowed brightly, then died.

她的香烟燃起一阵亮光，然后就熄灭了。

demonstrates

释义

v.举行示威游行（或集会）( demonstrate的第三人称单数 ); 示范。展示; 显示; 论证;

Everything he writes demonstrates the acuteness of his intelligence.

从他的文笔可以看出他思维敏捷。

Everything he writes demonstrates the depth of his sensibility.

他笔下的一切都显示出他深深的感悟。

The evidence demonstrates how easily people can hold mutually contradictory beliefs.

证据表明人很容易持有相互矛盾的信念.

evidence

释义

n.证词; 证据; 迹象; 明显;

vt.使明显; 显示; 表明; 证实;

The evidence was corroborated by two independent witnesses.

此证据由两名独立证人提供。

This new piece of evidence invalidates his version of events.

这条新证据推翻了他对事件经过的说法。

Factual and forensic evidence makes a suicide verdict the most compelling answer to the mystery of his death.

事实证据和法庭证据使得自杀成为解开他死因之谜的最令人信服的答案。