1. Develop thesis statement for any one of the following topics:

• Job Satisfaction

• Smoking Cigarettes

• College Education

• Foreign Travel

• Television's Effect on Children

Write an essay consisting of 250 to 300 words on the topic chosen from above

Question#1A

Thesis Statement on Smoking Cigarette:
Cigarette smoking in public and enclosed places should be banned because it does not only harm people's health but also causes diseases and affects both the active and the passive smokers.

SMOKING CIGARETTES Cigarette smoking in public and enclosed places should be banned because it does not only harm people's health but also causes diseases and affects both the active and the passive smokers. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d), Smoking causes the thickening of blood vessels which subsequently increasing heart rate and blood pressure. This increases the chances of coronary heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, and lung cancer. Smoking also affects fertility, bone, teeth development and increases the risk for eye cataracts. In brief, tobacco smoking is not good to the overall health of a person. In 2013, Jamaica introduced an anti-smoking law under the Public Health Act and implemented policies to regulate smoking in enclosed public places (Brown, 2013). Several public places were declared smoke free zones, which include enclosed workspaces, government buildings, educational and recreational centres (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 2014. To reinforce the regulation, public education such campaigns would create awareness on limits of the law and the catastrophic effects of tobacco smoking on people's health and environment (Linton, 2014). Following the ban on smoking, Steele (2013) notes a 30 % decline in sales that accompanied the confusion on