Smoking is a profound problem at Mclean Highschool. 50% of students at Mclean smoke 30% smoke during school operation hours. It is illegal for a person under the age of 18 to smoke. 30%of students break this law and while on school property, drug free zone. When you here the word drug you usually don't think of smoking, but tobacco is a drug. It's a very dangerous drug, highly addictive. Smoking causes emphazema, lung cancer, throat cancer, cancer of the larynx, high blood pressure, etc... Many of these illnesses are fatal.. Teenagers have a track record of thinking that there invincible. RIght now smoking does not effect them, but it will cause them to age faster, get wrinkles, an infinite list of illnesses, and you smell bad.
With all thses draw backs why do kids smoke, one sophomore says, "releases tension and makes you feel better and makes me happy." Some students smoke because of stress but the irony is smoking causes more stress than it helps release. Another dsophmore says, "I smoke because I'm addicted and it's to late I'm going to die." There are two kinds of addictions, mental and physical. The physical addiction is when your body craves nicotine, addictive in tobacco products. The mental addiction is when you habitually smoke, after liunch you smoke, owhen you wake up in the morning you smoke, at dinner time you smoke, at four o'clock you smoke, whatever it is. The good news is, is that to beat the physical addiction it only taskes 48 hours, nictine only stays in your system for 48 hours, buton the down side beating the mental addiction takes three weeks, it takes three weeks to make a habit and it takes three weeks to break a habit.
Cigarettes contain fermaldihide, substance used for preserving dead bodies, rat poison, carbon monoxide. People start smoki g before they know the facts but once they do it's to late. Smoking is a way of life it consumes your whole life, from the people you hang out with to the smoking habits you aquire. TO get out of this schedule is extremely hard. one sophomore says, "I tried to quit, my mom even bought me nicorette gum but I couldn't at the end of the first day of not smoking I gave in I had to have a cigarette I couldn't stop myself. Shows how much power I have over my actions. The worst part is I smoke without even knowning it. I put a cigarette in my mouth and didn't even realize that I was doing it." 98% of people who smoke say the regret ever starting smoking.
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