Smoking is a hazardous killing habit, that may not affect a teenager now, but in the future to arrive. Not only will it affect there future, but it will damage there overall health and decrease there chances of having a healthy long life. Further more a teenage smoker will not just affect there selves and there health, but there families and friends close by. Smoking may not just be a way for looking chilly in this day and age, it appears to be from the pressure surrounding it. It is theses consequences that teenagers do not face until it is to tardy, thus it is fair to say that choosing to start smoking as adolescents is the worst decision a teenager could make.
Researches say that most teenagers who start smoking, know the risks of smoking tobacco, but why do they keep going. The reason most adolescents smoke because "they do not think about next month, next year or five years from now, they tend to live in the moment". When faced with danger or health risk, they think it will never happen to them. The American Lung Association estimates that every minute four thousand eight hundred teens will smoke there first cigarette. Of those four thousand eight hundred, about two thousand will be addicted to this awful habit. The reason that this habit is so addicting because of the nicotine substance in the tobacco. Nicotine is one of more than 4,000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke and 50 of these chemicals cause cancer.(bellenir13). Most cigarettes in Canada contain ten to twenty milligrams of nicotine per cigarette. The average smoker only in hales about one to two milligrams of that nicotine, yet this may seem to be a tiny amount but it has a big impact. When nicotine is inhaled it travels through the bloodstream to the brain in less then 10 seconds and then through the relax of the body.( 34). When nicotine reaches the brain it increases the amount of acetylcholine in the brain, which increases the amount of message to the brain cells , causing the smoker to have a rise in energy level and be able to pay attention or focus( 34-35) . Nicotine also increase your dopamine to make you glad and calm. Lastly it can also increase production of endorphin your body pain-killing proteins. This how a cigarette becomes addicting , as theses feelings only last thirty minutes after finishing a cigarette. There is strong evidence that smoking tobacco cause two dozen disease and illness. About one third of the two thousand teens who are addicted, will die promptly from a smoking related illness in the future. These diseases are usually hundred of different kinds of cancers, such as lung cancer, kidney cancer, cervical cancer and cancers of the mouth and throat(55) .
Not only does smoking give the smoker cancer, but the friends and family close by inhaling the awful chemical fumes from the cigarettes. There is about 4,000 chemicals found in cigarette smoke, two thirds of the chemical fumes from a cigarette is not inhaled by the smoker, but enters the air around the smoker. These chemicals are five times more carbon monoxide, nicotine, ammonia (found in window cleaner) and arsenic (found in rat poison). When bystanders inhale this chemicals it is called secondhand smoke. Bystanders may only odor the smoke for 30 secs, but fumes stay in the air for 30 minutes. Every year in Canada 1000 non smokers die from second hand smoke(Net1). These premature deaths are usually from lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and severe asthma(bellenir) . Second hand smoke may be dangerous for everyone, but especially with kids and pregnant women. kids exposed to second hand smoke are at risk at SID's, ear problems, slow lung growth, and respiratory symptoms.