The Eagle Times

As you all well know, smoking cigarettes is not the healthiest thing, but it is a very popular thing. So, why is that? Well, peer pressure is no friend of ours. It causes us make stupid decisions and regrets half of the stuff we do. Nobody will ever admit that it is indeed peer pressure that got them started. Most people say stuff like, “It is a social thing… I wanted to see why everybody else did it…It just gives me something to do.” Well usually it is going to take a little more than that to take that first drag of that cigarette.

As sick and tired as everybody is from hearing that statistics behind smoking that will never be irrelevant to this subject. Cigarettes cause people to have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and clogged arteries which are basically asking your body for a heart attack. Recently I’ve had someone I know go through a heart attack and it made me realize that lung cancer and emphysema aren’t the only things that will happen to you. You are actually putting your heart at a way bigger risk. Don’t get me wrong you will still get lung cancer or emphysema eventually so don’t rule those out.

Cigarettes can also cause birth defects or premature births. There is actually a big long list of things that cigarettes cause. Cigarettes account for the 440,000 of the 2.4 million deaths annually. So all and all before you light up that next cigarette think about the next half of your life breathing out of an air tank. Think about a life of very intense pain until the day that you die. But I do have to give us credit. The popularity of smoking for most people has taken a plunge for the best and the government is helping out by making it harder to smoke in public places.

By Scotty Baldwin