oke. I was in utter disappointment, and I spend countless hours trying to persuadeher into quitting. Trying another method, I spend days collecting facts and statistics about thedangers of smoking to further try to pry her from the nicotine fixation. Nothing seemed to work,and so I gave up, with the frustration that I let one of my friends fall into the addiction, notknowing what they were getting into. One by one, I started to see quite a few of the peoplearound me become smokers. My friends were smoking, my teachers were smoking, my relatives,and even my mother started to smoke. Slowly, the need to prevent their dependency on cigaretteslessened, and I came to be comfortable with it. This, I feel, will affect my life later on, when Ihave children of my own. Because I am comfortable with smoking at my age, I only wonder if Iwill be strict enough to my own children on smoking. Now, although I came to accept everyone’shabit, I never felt the need to start smoking, or to even try it. Curiosity never managed tooverpower me and so to this day, I have never put my lips to a cigarette.Even though I don’t smoke, I can honestly say that smoking is still a part of my life,because the people around me smoke. I know that almost everyone that smokes has no idea whatis happening to their body. People don’t know the minuscule effects of smoking like how the ciliain their throat shrivel up and die, or how sperm become damaged and reproduce, carrying thedisorder to the next sperm. Only days of smoking can negatively affect your system, and onceyears have passed, smokers rarely think about the greater dangers such as lung cancer, skincancer, and birth defects. Although I don’t smoke, I still am aware of these dangers and I try tokeep myself away from situations where I am surrounded by smoke. The majority of people don’tknow that breathing in second hand smoke is actually worse than smoking a cigarette.People ...
