Halloween’s History

Smoking

For many people, smoking all starts with teenagers because of cigarette advertising. Cigarette advertising is everywhere, for example, "They link the use of tobacco with precisely those attributes and qualities in life such things as happiness, wealth, prestige, sophistication, success, maturity, athletic ability, virility, creativity, sexual satisfaction, and others that the habitual use of drugs usually diminishes and destroys" (Lane). However, the long term effects of smoking are no so pretty. Later down the road they will come to find that smoking gives lung cancer and bad breath with yellow teeth. Essentially, everyone who smoked would die early in life and half of the life they lived, they would not even have a voice box. So there would be a huge whole in the middle of there neck. However, it has been discovered that smoking and second hand smoking do more damage then just lung cancer. Smoking has helped pave the way for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, many types of cancers and respiratory and cardiovascular disease. But its not too late; there are some benefits of quitting smoking.

Secondhand smoke has been a very significant problem in public areas. For example, the doctors say that "Children who live around secondhand smoke are more likely to have asthma than other children. These children are also prone to have underdeveloped lungs and more respiratory problems when they grow to be adults" (Jackson). The parents are stealing away their children's life. Asthma means no football, soccer, or any type of athletics. They have to be careful when they get scared. They will have to carry around an inhaler. Children should not have to deal with such stress early on in their lives. Secondhand smoking has been associated with the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. A pregnant woman should not