Smoking

Smoking As older smokers quit, many of the younger generation of today are lighting up. Good morning chairperson and fellow classmates. As you may have already guessed, I am doing my speech today on smoking. Smoking is still the ’in’ thing to do in most teen groups today and many youths see it as a mark of adulthood. And middle aged diseases such as cancer, emphysema and other heart diseases seem so far away to many adolescents and young adults. I mean look at it from their point of view, you’re young, mentally as well as physically strong. Why would you get sick, or become addicted to anything' And if you do start smoking, you’ll be able to quit anytime you want, right' Wrong! It has been clinically proven that the younger you start, the more likely you will become strongly addicted. Nicotine, the addictive substance in cigarettes, is one of the most addictive substances known, even more so than heroin. Also, being addicted isn’t a sign of weakness – it’s a sign that the drug has caused changes in your body that you can’t ignore. And for most people this happens quickly. The effects of cigarettes happen when the smoke is drawn down into the lungs smoking, nicotine, blood, youths, within, lungs, smoke, brain, start, smell, relaxation, lead, hours, effects, couple, become, anti-smoking, addicted, youth, younger, young, work, weeks, ways, vessel’s, tubes, today, time, taste, take, stream, stop, smokers, smoker, sign, school