The Threatening Cigarette

1. The Threatening Cigarette By Emma Jaques How Does Smoking Affect Your Life? Each year , 5.4 million people die in the United States from smoking. 2,ooo people a day in China also die from smoking. How Much Money Goes Into Smoking? Why Do People Continue? What Are The Chances And Difficulties Of Somebody Quitting? How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... These cigarettes have been smoked by many people.

2. How Does Smoking Affect Your Life? How Does Smoking Affect Your Life? Smoking affects your life in more than one way. Most smokers say that smoking can’t affect your life, it can though and in a lot of ways. Two ways smoking can affect your life is Lung Cancer and Heart Ailments. The dangers of getting these diseases is becoming more likely each year. Bad breath also plays a part. When you smoke a cigarette the smoke enters your mouth and does not leave. The smoke is really hard to get rid of. Smoking does not only affect your life, but it affects the people around you. When you smoke the people around you take in the smoke and can also get cancer. When you smoke you pollute the air, so then you are not only affecting yourself you are hurting everybody else. Smoking also starts a lot of fires, and when the fire spreads around things are destroyed, like people’s houses. Habitats where animals and trees live are also destroyed. Next time you go to pick a cigarette, think about the others that you are also hurting. How Much Money Goes Into Smoking? Why Do People Continue? What Are The Chances And Difficulties Of Somebody Quitting? How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... POWER WORDS! Lung Cancer: a disease in your lungs that can kill you Heart Ailments: a variety of diseases in the heart that can kill you Bad Breath: the breath smells very rotten and unpleasant THINK Why is smoking so important to people? Has smoking become part of their everyday lives?

3. How Much Money Goes Into Smoking? How Does Smoking affect Your Life? How Much Money Goes Into Smoking? When people smoke that is just $4.00 more dollars coming out of their pocket. The people who smoke don’t care, so they smoke up all of their money. People say that smoking can’t cost that much. Well it can, and it does. The averageamount of money a smoker spends a year is about $3,650.00 . That amount of money could have been spent on a really nice vacation or the new phone that you wanted to get. The people who love to smoke know that they don’t want to spend that much money on smoking. They are so addicted to it that they can’t help it. Then they end up with no money left and still trying to buy as many cigarettes as they can. The reason they get addicted is the world’s worst enemy, nicotine. Why Do People Continue? What Are The Chances And Difficulties Of Somebody Quitting? How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... Smoking is a very addicting thing. Smoking, is also very dangerous. POWER WORDS! Average: Adding up numbers in a group and dividing the sum by how many numbers there was in a group. Addicted: somebody who has a strong habit, or depends on something Cigarettes: a cylinder of finely cut tobacco rolled in paper

4. Why Do People Continue? How Does Smoking affect Your Life? How Much Money Goes Into Smoking? People continue because they say that they get energy from smoking. Some even say that smoking makes them look pretty , or even smart. Everybody knows that smoking makes you look stupid. One more reason that people continue is that they say smoking helps them deal with stress. They can think that all they want, but smoking on stress actually hurts you. The big reason people smoke is that they usually start when they are young. 3,900 kids a day become regular smokers. Most people start when they are kids, but some people start when they are older. Why Do People Continue? What Are The Chances And Difficulties Of Somebody Quitting? How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... Smoking has killed so many people. POWER WORDS! Stress: anxiety, tension Stupid: foolish and silly, lack of normal intelligence Smoking: to puff or inhale the vapor from a lit cigarette

5. What Are The Chances And Difficulties Of Somebody Quitting? How Does Smoking Affect Your Life? How Much Money Goes Into Smoking? The chances of somebody quitting are not very likely. The reason it is difficult to quit is nicotine. Nicotine is like a drug that is put in a cigarette. Nicotine raises blood pressure and heart rate. As nicotine spreads all over the body ,the person that is smoking reaches for a cigarette to get another “hit” of nicotine . Nicotine is like alcohol, but worse. Nicotine reaches your brain in 10 seconds. Therefore, you grow to like nicotine and can’t get enough of it. There are a lot of ways to quit smoking. People do try to quit smoking, but ¾ of the people who quit smoking need the cigarette and start smoking again. Why Do People Continue? What Are The Chances And Difficulties Of Somebody Quitting? How to Learn More And Reply to this Article... THINK: How can people stop smoking before they die from it? POWER WORDS! Alcohol: an intoxicating beverage such as wine and beer Nicotine: a toxin found in tobacco leaves Drug: a substance that changes your body and how you feel

6. How Does Smoking Affect Your life? How to Learn More and Reply to this Article... How Much Money Goes Into Smoking? Why Do People Continue? To learn more about the dangers of smoking, click on these websites below. www.dangersofsmoking.com www.factsonsmoking.com www.howdoessmokinghurtyou.com www.cigarettesmoking.com To respond to this Feature Article, go to the Watson’s Winners Blog, below: http://cwatsondps.wordpress.com/ What Are The Chances And Difficulties Of Somebody Quitting? How to Learn More And Reply to this Article...