Why young People smoke

Cigarettes have a negative effect on our health, but few young people care. Only when they go to the doctor because they can’t breathe very well and feel really bad, do they realize that they had made a terrible mistake. Sometimes it is too late for them…they have cancer.
Students want to show their peers that they can smoke and they are very proud of this thing. Even if they talk to their parents about smoking they don’t seem to learn anything. Even if the break is only 10 minutes long, students don’t miss the opportunity to smoke. Moreover, regulations prohibit smoking in the school area, but students are not willing to obey the school rules.
Smoking one cigarette shortens your life by 7 minutes. Smoking a pack of cigarettes per day shorts your life 140 minutes per day, 51,100 minutes / year or 35.5 days per year. This means that smokers have fewer years to 11 months! But if you try to explain a student this thing, he or she will start laughing. The entourage influences students as well. If you want to be friend to some kids who smoke you have to smoke too. I would advise all my friends not to let anyone influence them.
Furthermore, some students want to show that they are similar to adults; they want to experience new things or lose weight. Cigarettes don’t make you a rebel, they just slowly kill you. For these reasons the authorities have decided to put some shocking images on the cigarette packs with slogans like “Smoking kills” or “Smoking affects those around you”. I really hope this measure will prevent young people from taking up this terrible habit.
To conclude with, I would like to say that we have to think twice before we light our first cigarette as our health should be the most important thing for us.

I wish you all Happy Easter! You were all very hard-working today and I'm proud of the way you all got involved in cleaning the classroom. Don't forget to take photos for the Spring Competition!