Smoking

Smoking

Although smoking is an unhealthily habit, about 20 percent of young peoplesmoke. The number of smoking people is increasing every year and it createsproblems for other people and for themselves. Smoking is very popular andamong teenagers, especially among boys.The biggest harm that smoking can do is that it affects people’s health. Itmay cause lung cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses. One outof six deaths in the world happens because of smoking.There are several reasons why people start smoking. Teenagers often do whattheir parents do and if their parents smoke, they also want to try it.Another reason is that if everybody smokes in a big company of friends, aperson also smokes, because he doesn’t want to be different from others.And of course as you all know advertisements have a big influence onpeople. The same happens with cigarette advertisements. This problem wasbigger few years ago, when cigarette advertisements were aloud. I think ourgovernment made a right decision, that they banned cigarette promotion.Finally people stopped discussing about negative influence that cigaretteadvertisement do. So I can say that smoking among teenagers is a matter offashion and among adults is way to relieve stress and a habit.Also smoking is a big problem I schools. Lots of pupils during the breaktime go to the school yard and smoke. Such behaviour diminishes schoolprestige. If I were s schoolmistress I would try to change the situation. Iwould try to make pupils to get familiar with harm of smoking. I wouldinvite a doctor to speak about dangerous of smoking and about seriousillnesses. I would also give warning to people, who smoke and after threewarnings I would invite parents to school to talk about pupils behaviour.

Not only the school has to be responsible for pupils but also parentsshould take care of their children and their children’s health. I thinkparents shouldn’t punish their children for smoking, but they shouldexplain why smoking is a bad habit. If parents punish their children,children always do the opposite.Smoking is a big problem in all the world. Until now there is no way tosolve the problem. More and more people start smoking , but of course lotsof people get rid of this harmful habit.