Smoking
Essay by 24 • December 17, 2010 • 539 Words (3 Pages) • 1,090 Views
Everyday almost 3,000 children start smoking, most of them between the ages of 10 and 18 and it is said that they make up 90 percent of smokersn the world. About the same amount of those smokers said that they first tried or started smoking when they were teenagers. Mainly this is because of the environment around them whether it's their parents or friends smoke, or because they think it makes them look more mature or very cool. Smoking actually does make a person seem older, that if yellow teeth and wrinkles is the look you want. The people who smoke are just wasting their money and it just shorten their life's by almost 14 years. Therefore, smoking should be made illegal; for it's the number one cause of death in the United States.
Although some people say that smoking helps them get rid of their stress and pressure cause by personal problems.In a website a looked at called Smoking is Good for You, it said that smokers help the economy because of the amount of money they spend, the more they buy the more taxes they pay.By that it meant that the amount of money they spend a person can buy a brand new car. An average smoker spends an estimated average of $83,400 in a life time of smoking. All that money, which could be considered as burned, could have been saved for the smoker's child to go to college. And if the child didnt need the money it could have been saved up.
I believe that the site was trying to make a point by saying that tabacco is the money is because of all the people around the world that spend money on it every single day. But at the same time you would have to look at the conseqences of it. The more people buy the more they are of at risk of dying. People that smoke has chacnes of getting cancer or smoking a hole in their nack. When a person smoke there teeth becomes a yellow decaded color causing them to fall out.But smoking doesn't only affect the smoker, it's affects the people around it.It is
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