Smoking

Smoking

Everyday 3,000 children start smoking, most of them between the ages of 10 and 18. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, almost 90 percent of all smokers said that they first tried smoking when they were teenagers. These statistics show that teenagers are more venerable to smoking than any other age group. And that is because they are influenced by the environment around them whether it’s because their parents or friends smoke, or because they think it makes them look older and more mature. Smoking actually does make a person seem older, that if yellow teeth and wrinkles is the look you want. Smoking wastes the consumer’s money, shortens his life by approximately 14 years, and kills people in the United States more than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, and fires combined. 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 stresses and pressures because of economic and personal problems, it actually enlarges their economic problem more and more. An average smoker spends an estimated average of $83,400 through a life time of smoking. All that money, which could be considered as burned, could have been saved for that smoker’s child college fund. And if the child doesn’t need a college fund, the money could’ve been donated to other people who need it. Smoking doesn’t only affect the smoker, but it affects the whole community. A pack that costs a person $3.45 is estimated to cost the nation $7.18 per pack which is near to double its original cost. Overall, the economic cost of smoking equaled about $3,391 per smoker per year. That’s $157 billion per year in the US mostly for medical treatments from lung cancer to emphysema, and whatever

you do you can’t escape from the hazards of smoking whether it is medically or economically. Therefore, smoking is a waste of money.

Some people believe that smoking doesn’t affect them in any kind of way and that they don’t feel any change in their life. However, if smoking doesn’t affect them during the early period of your lives, it will surely affect them in their later years. Smoking has proved to take off a good 14 year off your life. Smoking also has an undeniable effect on your skin, as it loses its healthy glow and takes on a yellowish-gray cast. The more cigarettes smoked, the worse your skin will look. In fact, that is the most effective way to stop women from smoking as they are more concerned with their skin complection than their actual health. Smoking also causes premature aging by using up all the vitamin C in the body, which help give the skin its youthful look. This wrinkled and unhealthy skin can add up to more than 10 years to the actual age of the smoker. Thus, smoking not only shortens the