Write a speech arguing that smoking is bad for young people

People begin smoking often because they are often put under the stress of family life, exams and work. Smoking is not the way forward to deal with stress; there are other ways to deal with it. Smoking, in fact, makes you look much older than you really are. All young people are interested in how they look, so why ruin it by smoking? It has been proven that smoking make you look older by over 10 years. Would you like that to happen to you?

I am sure you are all aware about the health factors of smoking. By smoking, you are creating a layer of tar onto you lungs; this puts a lot of pressure onto your lungs as they have to work much harder to get oxygen in the blood. This causes problems such as lung cancer. Do you really want this to happen to you? Did you know: smoking is extremely dangerous for the foetus and the mother during pregnancy? How would you feel if your child is extremely unwell and it is because you smoked?

What is more; is that once you have taken a few cigarettes, you can’t stop. Nicotine in the cigarette causes you to be addicted to it. So if you do want to stop to reduce the chance of you becoming ill from cancer; you have to go through a lot of pain to totally give up.

You may think that smoking looks really cool and that all famous actors and actresses do it. But in reality, it is shortening your life by around 10 years. Do you want to die earlier than the average life expectancy? My grandfather started smoking because he felt it looked cool. He died at 50 from lung failure. Do you want to die a painful way like my grandfather did?

To conclude, people feel that smoking is considered the “cool” thing to do nowadays and start smoking due to peer pressure from other things. So, do you really want to go around with yellow teeth, bad breath and looking 10 years older than you really are?