Smoking Needs to Be Illegal

By: Megan

   Think of an innocent girl in the hospital dying because of smoking. But not because of her smoking, it’s because of second-hand-smoking. That’s what smoking did to her. So as you see smoking needs to be illegal. It harms you, it also hurts others, not only for those reasons, but it wastes all of your money.

        Smoking is very bad for you and it hurts you badly. Once you start smoking you can’t stop! It’s very addicting and every cigarette you light and burn the worse and worse your body gets. The main thing that smoking does is cause lung cancer, but it can cause any type of cancer. Your lungs is how you breathe so when you breathe the smoke in it goes to your lungs! Your lungs will turn black and you have a good chance of dying. My uncle had cancer for several years. He was a smoker and the smoke gave him five types of cancer. He died after all of that. What a fight! See how it harms you? Do you want to affect yourself? Because smoking will hurt yourself.

          Do you want to hurt your loved ones? That’s also what smoking can do to people your close with and random people that might be close to others. If you smoke other people can breathe it in and it can hurt them just as bad as you’re hurting yourself!.Did you know that second-hand-smoking can hurt people more than it hurts you! And people don’t even know what they are doing! That’s bad and unbelievable! I learned about a story about a girl named Sally. Sally’s boss thought of Sally as a sister. He smoked around her because he had no idea how it was affecting her. Sally would cough all the time. One day Sally died. All because of her boss. And think how close they were. In other words second-hand-smoking is very bad!

        Think about you wasting all your money and losing everything you have. That’s what smoking can do to you. A small pack of cigars cost $10. Some people burn a pack a day. That’s $70 a week worth of cigars! That’s a money waster. Did you know that the government is increasing taxes to curb people from starting smoking? Why pay the extra price when the government could just make smoking illegal! Think about how much money you’re wasting now! If they make smoking illegal you, if you’re a smoker or non-smoker, could save lots! Smoking wastes so much money.

In conclusion smoking must be illegal! If you smoke your life will be ruined! Smoking will hurt you, hurt others, and waste all of your money! Next time you see a smoker think about the consequences that that person must be going though. I need you if you’re thinking about starting smoking to remember what you will put yourself through.