The Addictive Poison
One day I was walking down the street and I came across two teenagers smoking. They put down their cigarettes when I went past, but I could still smell the horrible fumes in the air. Smoking is a worldwide poison. It’s nearly too big to stop, but there is still time.
Have you ever wondered what’s in a cigarette? Beware, this is not for the squeamish. There are things like… cadmium (a car battery fluid), arsenic (a poison), hydrogen (another poison) and carbon monoxide (a substance that interferes with oxygen supplies to the brain). These are just a few of the awful ingredients in a cigarette. So why would you smoke? Would you really risk your life to smoke a cigarette?
If you ask any smoker how a cigarette can kill you most of them would just say “lung disease,” but this is wrong. The right answer is much, much worse than that. Only 28 percent of death-by-smoking is caused by lung disease, when a horrifying 48 percent is caused by heart and brain disease, which are heart attacks and strokes!
I am horrified by smoking in general as well as the fact that cigarettes are getting sold openly on the street and the fact that there are no laws preventing it. Those are the straight facts that make it worst of all. Don’t poison yourself. Don’t smoke.
Cameron
