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0Andrew Choi : 8th Grade / Bayside, NY / MS 74

 

When you inhale second hand smoke, you think pessimistically. Cigarettes are a malicious blight for the body. Smoking is one of the worst things you can do to your body but because the effects resulting are mostly long term. The temptations to relieve stress and the images of attracting women would persuade men to start smoking and women to want to be like them because women might think that guys are attracted to women who smoke. Images and temptation are the two prime factors that continue to let tobacco industries thrive.
A smoke-free home is a healthy home. That is very true. For non-smokers, when they inhale second hand smoke, it is more than 50% the same as smoking a cigarette. Non-smokers die from lung cancer even though they don't smoke. Cigarettes are like the tools in a toolbox except used for the opposite purpose. Tools are used to fix furniture, homes, and etc. Cigarettes make you body in bad condition. It burns and creates smoke, which kills you later if youre addicted to it or inhale it very often. Cigarettes are like products from hell. If you want to stay fit, you shouldn't smoke because your lungs get damaged and it'll be harder to breathe. You won't be able to participate in sports for that long because you get tired fast. You will have difficulty breathing.
A smoke-free home is a wise home. It is wise not to smoke. If you start smoking and you're addicted to it, you will lose your money very fast. A pack of cigarettes are around $7. Your wallet will be empty if you keep it up. That's like working for an hour at McDonalds. Who would want to stay in a fast food restaurant working to buy a pack of cigarettes? Also, your breath and clothes will have bad odor. In most girls' view, it'll be awkward. Girls' will think that that person didn't shower or brush their teeth and that will be embarrassing if a girl says that to you.
A smoke-free home is a respectable home. Would a guest in your house respect your home when it smells like cigarette smoke? If they can't stand the odor, they'll want to leave as fast as they can. It is deadly to live under the roof of a house that has the smell of cigarettes. When people come to your house and they smell second hand smoke in your house, they might dislike you because your parents smoke because they know smoking gives you a higher chance of getting a heart disease, lung disease, a major heart attack or stroke.
A smoke-free home is a healthy, wise, and respectable home. There is no point of starting to smoke. When kids learned about smoking in school and teachers telling their students that smoking is bad, most don't listen. They just try smoking because they see high school people smoking on the streets and they try. All smoking does to you is giving you a more less of a time to live your life. Who would want to be a poor, unhealthy, and smelly person? There isn't a single good thing about smoking. Only when you're addicted to smoking because smokers still smoke because it relieves their stress, makes them concentrate better, and makes them relax. But what is the reason to start in the first place? Having a desire to be cool? Showing people that you're doing a man thing? Whatever the reason is, it is probably stupid.