2. Cigarettes are very addicting.
Kids can inhale deeply and choke, suffocate, or die from breathing
in.
People can find it hard to stop smoking after getting addicted.
Some people smoke frequently or for short periods of times.
People smoke to help with stress, or because they are addicted.
There are many things that are in the cigarettes. Another thing is
that smoking gives you stinky clothes, yellow teeth and it can also
give you lung and gum cancer.
Smoking is not a good idea because you are killing your lungs and
they are not going to work good for you.
900 infants die from parents who smoke.
There are 4,000 chemicals in tobacco that can reach
brain, heart, or other organs.
17,000 children under age 5 goes to the hospital from parents
smoking
Half of all Americans die from smoking.
3. 81% of the people in this world smoke.
7.9% of the people are smoking at 65 or
older.
14.5% of women smoke in America.
Out of the 48.2% people that smoke, 25.6%
are men and 22.6% are women who
smoke.
Most smokers die by the age of 35-69.
80% of smokers die of lung cancer.
30% of smokers die from cancer due to
smoking.
80% of smokers try to stop smoking.
20% of the smokers succeed to stop.
4. People are stressed out about something.
They start to smoke because they have family problems, such as not
communicating with their parents or running away from home.
They start at a young age because there friends do it, or they want to
do it to be cool and show it off to the others.
Many teenage moms are starting to smoke because they have to deal
with homework, school and more.
There are many teenage groups that use drugs, and those groups
convince other young kids to use drugs.
Stress
Boredom
Family and friends
Think it is cool to smoke
Popularity
Someone you look up to
TV and movies
Access
Nervous
5. Set a specific date for you to stop smoking
for a day or a couple of days.
Use the patches that they advertise on T.V.
These patches help you forget about
having a cigarette.
Go to a doctor for a 30 minute treatment
to help you stop smoking.
Sometimes quitting is the best solution
because if you have children they will start
smoking because they see you smoking.
6. Lung cancer
Nicotine goes to the brain
Gum disease
Low amount of antioxidant in their blood
Dehydrated
Makes it harder to breath
You have to pay a lot of money for cigarettes
Smells
Makes your teeth yellow