Smoking Persuasive Essay

Cigarette Smoking

I feel that smoking is a horrible choice, risk, and mistake. Smoking affects everyone around you through Second Hand Smoke. The risk of increasing your chances of lung diseases, heart failure, and risks even yet unidentified are overwhelming. The cost of cigarettes is also getting out of hand for people to afford. Cigarette smoking has many risks and no rewards that I know of.

Second Hand smoke hurts people around you whether they be your loved ones or people you don’t even know. If you spend eight hours a day with a smoker, your chances of developing lung cancer increase by 20 to 40 percent. Many babies can birth defects or become mentally challenged even before birth. It almost does more damage to them than you, because you have a filter and they don’t.

The cost of smoking is getting too out of hand. Some people who are parents and smokers also can’t afford it on their budget. It hurts people in the long when you invest into cigarettes and not bank accounts or safe stocks. My own mother has been smoking for 28 years. If she had not smoked we could have roughly $169,536, that’s a lot of money. Children are also spending money on cigarettes and not learning to save for college or their futures, assuming their parents will for them.