06/03/2016

You don’t have to light that stick



            As I start to consume every pint of my cigarette, my body starts to loosen up; pleasure sinks in, my mind goes neutral, unscrewing every tight bolts and screws in my body. The coldness, the chill, the icy blast that runs through my respiratory system whenever I smoke, it’s fascinating. Every inhale, and exhale, oh man, it kills me. But what kills me more, is the fact that this stick, this cigarette I’m smoking might be the cause of my death in the near future. *whispers* (hopefully not)



            I refrain myself from smoking every now and then. Although I still smoke, but not that much unlike my other friends who smoke regularly. Our community is built up with different types of people, different culture and whatsoever, some smoke and some don’t. My goal here is not to influence my friends, my classmates, or the people around me. I don’t want to see them smoking. I already know that smoking can cause a person to have cancer, plus, every cigarette a person smoke reduces the expected lifespan by eleven minutes; isn’t that enough to scare a person to stop or don’t try to smoke?

            


            A single cigarette contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to 
cause cancer. Every day, nearly four thousand teens in the U.S. smoke their first cigarette while one thousand start smoking on a daily basis; these are the facts everyone should know. Every day, the population grows; along with it is the growth of percentage of people smoking. I mean what benefits will they get in smoking, the tendency of having cancer, destruction of digestive and oral systems, or failure of respiratory system?   We have to save our fellows lives.

            If we can’t stop it, why don’t we find another way? I'm pretty sure that to change something big, we can’t do it in just one glance, we can’t do it with just one poof, and we don’t have magic. Bit by bit we can do this.

This is me saying 
If you want to make a change, start with yourself.




reference: http://www.factslides.com/s-Smoking#
                 http://www.healthline.com/health/smoking/effects-on-body

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