No Smoking!

It makes no sense to me why anybody would want to smoke. Many would probably argue that it makes them feel cool. Why? What is cool about smoking? The one and only reason why people would think that it is cool is because their parets don't want them to. Smoking is a very foolish thing to do for many reasons.

It is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
Each year, smoking kills more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, alien abductions, and fires---combined!
More than 5 million children living today will die prematurely because of a decision they will make as adolescents---the decision to smoke cigarettes.

Ever since the introduction of tobacco in the 16th century, controversy as to whether or not using tobacco has existed. It was, at first, praised by some as pleasurable and even medicinal, while at the same time condemned as smelly and harmful. Now it is widely known that smoking is not in any way good for anyone, but people still do it. It's like I said before; since everyone says it is bad, there are some who will do it just for that very reason. It's the same thing with Marylin Manson eating chickens on stage and doing things to dead cows. It's all about rebelling. There are better ways to rebel than to destroy yourself, though. People don't seem to realize that the only reason smoking is discouraged is because it is bad for you and will kill you, as it has many others. Information for this page came from CDC's TIPS and my own head. I italicised the CDC part, so please check out that site for more information. There, you will find reports from the surgeon general from as far back as the 1960s.