Did you know that people who smoke have very low lung capacity and can’t live for many years? Smoking affects your lungs and it makes it harder for your lungs to take in air. Millions of people love to do things that need a lot of lung capacity but can’t, since they have a habit of smoking. If you want to live a long life which is glorified by good health, I would advise you to STOP smoking this INSTANT, especially in public!
Health Effects
Adult male smokers lose an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lose 14.5 years of life because of smoking! Smoking makes you very weak and tired. You don’t feel energetic and happy anymore. Smoking makes you grumpy and angry all of the time. While you are sleeping, all the air you breathed in from smoking runs around the body to make you feel worse. Smoking is a very common cause of death, causing heart attacks, cancer and a wide range of many other problems. Smoking literally changes your appearance! A girl can be only 17 years old but she may look like an old lady, because of smoking wrinkles. Your beautiful face can turn into your grandmother’s face just because you smoke! This is why smoking should be permanently banned!
Passive Smoking
Smokers don’t understand that when they smoke in a crowded space their ghastly smoke goes into other people’s lungs too. This is called Passive smoking which is detrimental to the people who are in the vicinity of hard-core smokers. Secondhand smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, including 70 cancer-causing chemicals. No sane person would say that smoking in public shouldn’t be banned. Smoking in public is an extremely risky and dangerous thing. It can badly affect pregnant ladies, old-age people, children, nature and everybody infact !
Cigarette Butts
About 1.69 billion pounds of butts end up as toxic trash each year, making cigarettes the most littered item on Earth. Littering is not something you can ignore. Especially when people start to litter cigarette butts in public places, that is something that definitely cannot be ignored. Not only does it cause pollution, it becomes a pathetic eye-sore as well. These butts are a very bad fit to the planet just like plastic. The cigarette butts are flammable and can catch fire if thrown in the wrong place. Not only is it dangerous to earth and humans, it is also very threatening to wildlife. It is high time that we realized what a menace smoking can be and put a complete ban on it.
From this perspective, a very important thing to learn is that if you are a smoker, you are risking your life and the lives of people who surround you. Don’t forget that you are not only causing harm to me and other people, but animals too. Therefore, I strongly believe that smoking should be completely banned. For advocates of smoking who simply love this activity; they should be told to smoke in private, not publicly.
Writer : Akankhita Chaudhuri
Grade : 6 (Year 2022)
Place : Sydney, Australia.
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