Smoking has become very common and fashionable. Or they say so! Despite the warnings given by doctors about the ill-effects of smoking, people continue to smoke. Smokers are addicted to it, and even if they do not want to, they cannot refrain from picking up a cigar or cigarette and puffing away. Some youngsters smoke for the sake of society and some feel that would make them appear liberated and broadminded. Can’t you see that smoking is not only destroying older generations but the upcoming new generations like us?
Additionally, Smoking kills about 80,000 People in England every year. You heard that right, 80,000 people; Almost, enough to fill the whole of Wembley stadium. And that is just in England alone. Smoking kills more than aids, alcohol, car accidents, fires combined. If you still think it’s not a big deal to smoke and should not be banned? Well you are wrong! Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemicals in which 400 or more are toxic substances, for example, cyanide which is used to kill rats and insects. Would you really want to inhale rat poison?? Furthermore, smoking can cause cancer, the biggest killer without a cure, the most common types of cancer caused by breathing that disgusting stick is mouth cancer, Throat cancer and lung cancer; research claims that 90% of lung cancer cases are due to smoking, likewise, it can cause shortness of breath, vascular diseases, and lung diseases. I could just go all day talking to you about the illnesses caused by smoking and its effects on you and your body.
Smokers might say that smoking helps them to relax and relieve stress. But you can agree that we live in a place that offers many clubs and programmes that can help to relieve stress and I believe you can relieve stress other ways rather than inhaling thousands of chemicals for example, participating in sports
For us girls, we do really take care about our personal appearance; we care about how we look, don’t we? So let me give you some shocking effects that smoking can cause to our face and even to our mouth. Smoking can cause early aging, paler skin and more wrinkles. Would you really fancy wrinkles by the age of 18?? Worst of all, smoking can affect our oral health, so by that I mean yellow teeth, smelly breath, loose teeth and swollen gums. Personally, I do not think it’s an attractive look and I am sure most you will agree with me too.
Smoking is affecting people all over the world. Not just people but is also contributing to air pollution, land and water pollution and our environment. Cigarettes Butts left on the ground will approximately take 25-26 years to decompose. The various additives and chemicals are leached into the soil, polluting the soil as well as plants. Also, did you know thousands of fires are caused all over the world by not putting out a cigarette butt? It destroys us and destroys our earth.
As I am reaching to the end of my speech I hope you have understood that smoking is health threatening, Addictive and nasty. Smoking is affecting people around us and most of all making us lose the people we love. So I say, no, we should all say, for once and for all smoking should be permentally banned and be put into Room 101 before it’s too late.
Thank you for listening
Arunthathy nair.
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