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Smoking On Campus

Today about four hundred thousands Americans die annually because of the health problem due to smoking. One and a half million people quit smoking a year, but more than fifty millions people keep on going. Tobacco contains nicotine, a drug that is addictive. Once you start smoking, it is very hard, but not impossible to quit. Smoking has several harmful effects on the body. People who smoke for a significant period of time will have problems with breathing and will most likely be in poor health. One out of four deaths of people from thirty-five to sixty-four years old result from smoking. Based on scientific research, every cigarette takes five and a half minutes of life away from a smoker. (American Cancer Society)
I see that there is a large amount of college students who are willing to light up a cigarette whenever they want to on the college campus. A previous study (released in August 2000) showed that rates of current (30-day) smoking among college students increased by more than one-fourth between 1993 and 1997 (from 22 to 28 percent) and
remained at the higher level in 1999. The researchers attribute this increase to an earlier rise in tobacco use among high school and middle school students, which reached historically high levels during the 1990s (Action on Smoking and Health). Many of them said that "I am not harming people around by smoking." They are totally wrong. They are actually harming other students around by releasing the smoke from their cigarettes, which contains an extraordinary amount of toxin, into the air. According to an article from Air Purifiers, "The smoke particles and chemicals in the air cause asthma attacks and allergic reactions to occur in many people." Also, for many years, there have been many organizations and governments that reported secondhand smoke is very harmful to nonsmokers. Each year, fifty three thousands people die from the effects of second-hand smoke. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that three...