Assignment 19

Ten Reason People Start Smoking

1. Stress
2. To be cool
3. second hand smoke
4. Tv
5. Newspaper
6. Peer pressure
7. Family
8. Popularity
9. Friends
10. School

There are many reasons why smoking is bad. In 1985, according to an Federal Trade Commission report, the average tobacco cigarette contained .16 mg "tar" and 1.0 mg nicotine. A cigarette now is five to ten times more powerful than it was. Smoking one tobacco cigarette can cause more damage to your body.Tar and nicotine, along with small amounts of other material, are added to cigarette tobacco. When you smoke a cigarette, all these ingredients burn and you inhale the smoke that is created. Once in the lungs, the material in the smoke sticks to the lungs. The leftover material can cause problems in your lungs as well as your throat. You could get minor sickness like coughing, sore throat and headaches, but this can lead to major sickness like throat or lung cancer, problems with pregnancy, emphysema, and possibly even death.