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The Dangers of Tobacco

 

            Tobacco causes many different illnesses in the world. Smoking is a very addictive substance, peers, and parents can be a negative influence on you to smoke. The most common effect is peer pressure. Smoking causes cancer. Cancer is a very deadly disease. And most cancers have no cure. If your friends and family cause you to smoke, it is a very high possibility that you will get cancer. Tobacco causes many different illnesses in the world. Four different ways of using tobacco using is Cigarette, Cigar, and Hookah smoking, and smokeless tobacco. Cigarette smoking is very dangerous to your health. Cigarettes have 599 addictive chemicals and substances in them. The first reason why you shouldn't smoke is that smoking affects your health. Compared to nonsmokers, men who smoke are about 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer and women who smoke are about 13 times more likely. Smoking causes about 90% of lung cancer deaths in men and almost 80% in women(Cancer Statistics Source 1). .
             If you smoke, your physical condition will be negatively affected, so it will be very difficult for you to succeed in sports. Also, smoking produces lethal diseases like cancer and reduces the length and quality of your life. Maybe you don't notice all the physical effects of smoking immediately, but you surely will be sorry one day. There is over 200,000 cases of lung cancer in America. There is over 150,00 deaths from lung cancer caused by smoking cigarettes. The second reason why you shouldn't smoke is because of all the money that you spend on it. Maybe you start smoking only when someone offers you a cigarette, but there will be a day when you will feel the need of a cigarette. By this time, you will pay whatever to smoke, and each time you will smoke more, so you will spend more money. The last reason that people shouldn't smoke is for the respect of your peers and people in general. You are polluting the air and making other people breathe it in.


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