Smoking is extremely hazardous to your health. There are 200 different poisons just in cigarette smoke alone and more than 4000 chemicals and toxins that enter your body when you smoke. Smoking hurts your physical performance and your endurance. smoking pot can cause anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and paranoia. These things don't improve over time either. Smoking is now the leading preventable death cause. Around 440,000 Americans die each year from a tabacco related cause and most of them started when they were 18, so now think about all the kids that are smoking by the ages of 12 and 14. It's been proven that people who smoke a pack or more in a day live 7 years less than someone who doesn't. 7 years! And now around 4,000 kids under the age of 18 start smoking every day. That's 28,000 kids in just a week! Now somewhere around 6.5million people that are living today will die from a tobacco related cause. Wether it's driving while chewing some snuff or from someones lungs being totally destroyed from all the chemicals in a smoke. Smoking and tobacco are addictive. Even though some people don't believe it is somewhere around 3/4 of all the people wo smoke today can't stop or find it extremely hard to. Nicotine changes your brain until soon you can't function without it and when you try to quit you go into withdrawls and can't function as well. Most young people who start continue all through their adulthood as well. And don't forget that by smoking not only are you hurting yourself, but you are also hurting your family, friends, and people around you. Secondhand smoke boosts a non-smokers chance of getting lung cancer 30%!

Teens
Teens who smoke suffer from shortness of breath three times more than a non-smoker. They produce phlegm tice as much as non-smokers. They also three times more likely to use alcohol, eight times more likely to use maijuana, and twenty two times more likely to use coccaine then non-smokers!! That's a pretty big difference. Some teens think that smoking a joint is just the same as smoking a cigarette, but they're wrong! A joint is the same as smoking four cigarettes. They have treatment centers for teens with smoking and drug problems and about 60% of all the kids there are there because of a maijuana related reason. That means that more teens go there because of marijuana issues than issues related to all the other illicit drugs.

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