em. There is no sure cure for smoking, and every method requires willingness, dedication, and will power. Smokers should recognize the serious health risks they are facing every time they light a cigarette and accept that quitting such an addictive habit will only come with some amount of discomfort. Never the less, smokers should attempt to quit! “It is so difficult to quit that smokers should never feel inadequate if they fail.” (1) Every step in the right direction, even if you fall, will only make you stronger and bring you one step closer to your goal and to better healthTobacco is very addicting. The nicotine in the tobacco is what causes the addiction. There are many illness that one can acquire from using tobacco. Some of them are lung, breast, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and heart cancer. Smoking can also cause strokes, severe respiratory problems that include; pneumonia, chronic bronchitis, emphusema, and more. Tobacco causes birth defects, reproductive disorders, stained teeth and fingernails, wrinkled skin, and bad breath. Cigarettes are a factor in many automobile accidents. Children who smoke are much more likely to become herion, cocaine, and crack addicts. Tobacco can even cause death! It kills more than eight thousand people per week, which is more than 400,000 per year. Second hand smoke causes non-smokers to have some problems as well. The use of tobacco kills more Americans per year than alcohol, herion, crack, automobile, plane, and train accidents, homicides, suicides, and AIDS combined! Each year almost 100,000 Americans die from lung cancer alone. Experts have estimated that about twenty-four million men, about twenty-two million women, and about three million teen-agers smoke. Close to 3,000 teen-agers start smoking every day. In 1994 Americans smoked about 485 billion cirgaretts. Teen-agers smoke about one billion packs of cigaretts every year. Americans spend twenty billion dollars each year to ligh...
