Essay How Smoking Affects Your Life and People Around You I have watched a man try to convince me he’s not a smoker, as he holds a cigarette in hishand. People come up with many intricate and clever excuses to assure themselves, as well asothers, that they are not smokers. Whether you decide to call it “Social smoking”, or try to labelyourself solely as a “Party smoker”, you are a smoker. A few of my friends only have a cigaretteor two at a party, or with a drink. The rest of the smokers I know confess to their habit, but see itas being far from harmful. People that decide to follow this habit, don’t grasp the actuality that itis very dangerous to their health. As well, they have no idea that it is also threatening to thepeople around them such as friends and family. Cigarettes, whether you smoke twenty a day oronly two, will dramatically affect your life in ways you’d never suspect.Smoking has definitely affected my life, and now at the age of seventeen, I can recognizeall the changes. My older sister, the person whom I looked up to the most growing up, is asmoker. At the age of twenty-one, my sister has been smoking for a steady six years, starting atthe age of sixteen. At that age, I was only 13 and was well informed that she had startedsmoking. I began to notice that her clothes started to smell of smoke and that she wouldconstantly be spraying herself with perfume. I also noticed that her teeth were beginning to reveala pale yellow color. Having my own sister transform into a smoker came as a big shock to me,and I vowed to myself that smoking would never become a part of my life. Not only was Iwrong, I had no idea what was in store for me. As the years went by, my sister’s smoking habit no longer came as a shock to me, but theaddiction was still crude. As I turned 15, I started to notice that one of my good friends hadstarted to sm...
