Smoking; it is one of the lead causes of death in the world today. There are over a million reasons that people should stop smoking, and over a hundred billion dollars worth of cigarettes produced every year. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, sixty-nine of which are known to cause cancer. These are only a few of the many statistics of smoking. Every month kids die because their parents smoke or they are pressured to smoke by their peers or someone they love dearly.
Smoking is the biggest cause of one of the most dangerous, deadly, and incurable diseases in the world; cancer. Every day tons people die of cancer, and every day most of them had cancer because they smoked. Smoking has been passed down for generations and the price keeps rising. The literal cost rises however the drug dealers decide, and the figurative cost, meaning lives and health, rise simply because the number of people who smoke rises every year.
Many teens are pressured to smoke, and for the same reason. They have the same thoughts going through their minds, "I'll just try it once," or "one time won't hurt," or "I'll pretend to like it so my friends will think I'm cool, and then I won't try it ever again." This ‘one-time thing' will lead to a second try and then it will consume your life. The more you smoke, the harder it will be to stop. If you ever find yourself in that situation think twice before you act. It could save you thousands of dollars and your life.
Cigarette smoking is the largest source of disease, illness, and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim an estimated 438,000 American lives each year, including those affected indirectly, such as babies born prematurely due to prenatal maternal smoking and victims of "secondhand" exposure to tobacco's Substances that cause cancer. The cost of Smoking in United States was over $193 billion in 2004, including ninety-seven billion dollars in lost productivity and ninety-six billion dollars in direct health care expenditures, or an average of $4,260 per adult smoker.
Last year (2007) I had a chance to make a thirty second PSA, or Public Service Announcement, to enter in the TeenVideofest competition. The videos are limited to thirty seconds long so they have to be cool, catchy, and informative. I made one about smoking and it won second place, here it is on YouTube.
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