the costs of smoking by Monique Uy

     Smoking addiction is suicide. That is what smoking can do to a person. It can destroy one’s life as he or she knows it. Even though smoking relieves stress, it is bad since it deteriorates one’s health, affects one’s mental abilities and can cause social isolation.

     Smoking is bad. Everyone’s aware that it has nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide. Nicotine which makes it addictive, Tar which causes cancer and carbon monoxide which impairs the capacity of the blood to supply the adequate amount of oxygen in the body. Since it has nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide which deteriorates one’s health, smoking also reduces athletic performance of a person by endurance, strength, and recovery. Smoking increases the risk of being ill by the chemicals such as ammonia, acetone, formaldehyde and benzene. Because it has carbon monoxide which impairs the capacity of the blood to supply the adequate amount of oxygen in the body, it would affect ones mental abilities resulting to the reducing of IQ level of a person. It also causes fatigue to creep in. It induces lack of concentration. Smoking causes social isolation. Teenagers nowadays smoke because of peer pressure. They’re being bullied and they’re craving for attention. They thought smoking is the way not to be isolated and if they won’t smoke, they’d be rejected. Smoking deteriorates ones health, affects ones mental abilities and causes social isolation. It deteriorates ones health because of the chemicals that is slowly destroying every part of your body. Smoking also affects ones mental abilities by lowering the IQ level and inducing lack of concentration because of the carbon monoxide it contains. It cause social isolation because some think those who don’t smoke would be rejected.

     

      Smoking destroys ones health, mind and social life. And once a person starts smoking, he will have a hard time avoiding it. Yes, it relieves stress, it makes everyone forget their problems in just one night. Yet if everyone gets addicted to it, they will experience more problems that cause life and death.