Noah L

Smoke Isn’t A Joke

            The one that gets on my nerves more than anything is when people smoke. The smell the feeling and the look of it all drives me crazy. It especially bothers me when people smoke rate outside of restaurants, malls, stores, and other places where people walk in and out. For example you have gone to your favorite restaurant and you have had a good time and you’re laughing and goofing around and as soon as you walk out of the restaurant boom it hits you like a brick wall. The potent odor of that cigarette. It surrounds the area for what seems like miles and the worst thing about that is that you are breathing in second hand smoke.

            Second hand smoke is one of the many byproducts of smoking. For one it can cause ear infections, respiratory infections. And also an estimated 150,000–300,000 new cases of bronchitis and pneumonia annually. For nonsmokers, breathing secondhand smoke has immediate harmful effects on the cardiovascular system that can increase the risk for heart attack. Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work also have a higher risk for lung cancer. 

            In this day and age there is no excuse for not quitting. There are numerous ways to quit. For example the patches that are proven to work, E-cigs can reduce the nicotine to nothing (which I do have a friend that used that method and it worked). There is medical treatment, and many many other different ways to quit. The only way that you can quit is if you want to and if you have any self-control.

            Another bad byproduct of smoking is the pollution. It causes air pollution and also the cigarette butts that are everywhere. If you had a can you wouldn’t just throw it out the window so really it is the same concept. The air is shared by everybody and everyone has to breath it, no one wants to breath nasty smoke. 

            So all in all nobody likes the smell of smoke and it just stinks up the whole area It also hurts the environment. So if you don’t really care about other people’s well-being, think about the environment and the future generations that will breathe the same air that you are polluting.