smoking

Language arts Natasha Forcht Smoking 10/19/11 As recent studies show more than half of the underage smokers get their cigarettes from their parents who are also smokers. As teens continue to get their cigarettes, more and more teens begin to smoke. Many smoke because of peer pressure and others because they just can not stop. At such a young age, they do not think about the health risks of smoking and they do not realize how addictive smoking can be. Tobacco companies try to attract more teens because they are easier to persuade. Smoking is a danger to health. Many teens do not know that smoking will give them a slow and painful death. Almost everyone knows that smoking can give you lung cancer and they will still smoke knowing that. Smoking also affects the people they smoke around. Smoking will make their finger nails yellow. Smoking lowers your hormone levels. Smoking makes you smell bad, gives you wrinkles, stains your teeth, and gives you bad breath. Teen smokers have smaller lungs and a weaker heart than teen non-smokers. They also get sick more often than teens that do not smoke. The effects of smoking on human health are serious and in many cases, deadly. Smoking is the leading cause of premature, preventable death and disease in the United States. Each year, tobacco use results in more deaths than AIDS, unintentional injuries, suicide, homicide, and alcohol and drug abuse combined Twenty percent of high school students report having smoked a cigarette in the last month. 36.5% of females and 40.8 males smoke. In 2008, approximately 1,000 young people (under the age of 18) became daily smokers. If they play sports and do other activities at school or any other place those extra circulars will get their minds off smoking and what reason they are smoking. If the children spend more time with their families they might not need to smoke. The more they are around people that love them and care about them they will not be depressed and have the need to smoke. If teens go to church more often they might realize that what they are doing is not right to their bodies. If you agree with me please try to get people you know and love that smoke to stop. I also know someone that smokes and I have tried to convince them to stop. I have been successful so do not give up trying to help others. Do not start smoking because your friends are. You are your own person no one should tell you to do something you do not want to do.

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