When people smoke it causes addiction. The reason why is because there is a substance inside the cigarette. It’s called nicotine, nicotine is like a stimulant that causes the addiction when you smoke. When you smoke too much you can get cancer. For example, you can get, lung, bladder, or liver cancer. Most of the deaths from smoking come from …show more content…
30% of teens that smoke will die young from a smoking related disease. When teens smoke, they are more likely to have to have anxiety, depression, etc. And 90% of teens start to smoke under the age of 19 in the U.S. In the U.S, over 1.5 million packs of cigarettes are gonna be bought by teens each year. When teens by a pack of cigarettes at a gas station, the cashiers won't ask for their ID, and that really needs to change because teens are taking advantage of buying cigarettes. Another interesting fact is that when teens smoke, they are more likely to start using drugs such as marijuana and cocaine as well. Also there is a high chance that they will have an alcohol addiction when they smoke. And when teens smoke, they can possibly die 13 years earlier than regular people that had never smoked in their …show more content…
Second hand smoke is when a person is next to or near a person smoking and inhales the smoke coming out of the cigarette. When you are a victim of secondhand smoke, you can get cancer as well. But some of the cancers are different. For example, you can get nasal, rectum, and stomach cancer. Over 53,800 people die of secondhand smoke every year. Even children are victims of secondhand smoke. When children are a victim of secondhand smoke, they have a more chance of having asthma or lung cancer. When kids are affected of second hand smoke, they can get sick more often. Also kids can have more coughing, wheezing and even shortness of breath. Sometimes kids can have more lung infections like pneumonia or bronchitis. Sometimes people don't understand sometimes what second hand smoke does to people so they just won't care about the people next to them while they smoke and enjoy it, while the person next to them will become a