Also, remember, smoking causes your hair, breath, and clothes to stink. It makes your fingernails and teeth turn yellow and your skin to get wrinkly.
The skin is affected by tobacco smoke in at least two ways. Firstly, tobacco smoke released into the environment has a drying effect on the skin’s surface. Secondly, because smoking restricts blood vessels, it reduces the amount of blood flowing to the skin, thus depleting the skin of oxygen and essential nutrients. Some research suggests that smoking may reduce the body’s store of Vitamin A, which provides protection against some skin-damaging agents produced by smoking. Another likely explanation is that squinting in response to the irritating nature of the smoke, and the puckering of the mouth when drawing on a cigarette cause wrinkling around the eyes and mouth.
The first reason why you shouldn’t smoke is that smoking affects your health. 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.
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. All the money you would spend on cigars could have be spent in something better, don’t you think?
AN ARGUMENT FOR SMOKING
Most smokers offer similar reasons for their smoking. Smoking is an addictive habit that people enjoy and that relieves stress. Light smokers tend to smoke more for social reasons while heavy smokers are more likely to report that they smoke because of the addictive nature of tobacco.
People were asked why they relapse to smoking after a quit attempt, smokers mention cravings, addiction, not trying hard enough, not being ready and being around other smokers. 3 reasons for people not trying their best to quit smoking are because:
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The tobacco use climate. There are other smokers in the household or their work colleague’s smoke.
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Stated reasons for smoking. The reasons smokers offer for their smoking.
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Reasons for not quitting. People tend to think smoking helps their stress and also help to lose weight to prevent craving for food.
I researched some information on the internet and found out that light smokers smoke up to 5 or a few cigarettes a day; while moderate smokers smoke up to 6 to 21 cigarettes a day and heavy smokers smoke a staggering 21 cigarettes or more.
In the study 23 percent of smokers were light, 61 percent were moderate and 16 percent were heavy.
