My Dissatisfactions with Cigarette Smoking

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Kaylee West

Mrs. Hunt

Honors English II

09-24-07

My Dissatisfactions of Cigarette Smoking

        I have come to realize that in today’s society there are many aspects of life that dissatisfy me.  Being brought up in the south, I have had “hands on” experience with farmers growing some of the ingredients in cigarettes.  Many times these farmers choose to smoke the tobacco that they grow.  I despise cigarette smoking because it is a very disgusting habit, affects other people’s health, and is against my rights as a nonsmoker.

        Cigarette smoking is an absolutely disgusting habit.  In my opinion, it shows poor taste on another person’s part to choose to smoke cigarettes in public.  For example, I was at a restaurant in Panama City Beach, Florida and had a very bad experience with cigarettes.  There was a very long wait to be seated at the restaurant, and I was forced to endure the wait outside.  Almost all of the customers that were standing outside were smoking cigarettes.  It absolutely infuriated me to have to wait outside with my baby cousin, who suffers from asthma, until it was time for us to be seated.  I could not even sit comfortably on the benches because there were cigarette butts and ashes everywhere.  I also find it to be most offensive for my waitress or waiter to be a smoker and go outside for a “smoker’s break” and then return inside the restaurant and serve my food.  Cigarette smoking also turns your teeth and nails an ugly color yellow.  I find it not only gross for men, but for women is even worse, because it is not “ladylike.”  These types of behavior tend to send me into orbit.

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        Another reason why I am against cigarette smoking is because of the adverse affects on the non-smoker’s health.  I do not think it is very fair for individuals, like me, that choose to maintain a healthy lifestyle by avoiding harmful substances such as cigarettes and have other people force their bad lifestyle behaviors on non-smokers.  Scientists have found that second-hand smoke can be just as harmful to non-smokers.  I already have health problems including Heart disease, POTS (Postural Orthostatic Hypotension Tachycardia Syndrome), and Ehlers Danlos, and second-hand smoke not only makes these disease processes worse but also attributes to my ...

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