Smoking

Every day 3,000 children start smoking, most of them between the ages of 10 and 18 and one-third will die from tobacco related deaths. These kids account for 90 percent of all new smokers. In fact, 90 percent of all adults state that they first started smoking as a teenager. Of the 50 million American's that smoke, only 25% are over 18 years old. (Smoking, 26)   Statistics clearly show that young people are the prime targets of tobacco sales.   Throughout each year statistics show an increased in diseases contributed to smoking and second-hand smoke.   Most people don't realize the danger they are put in everyday from second-hand smoke.   Teens are looking down on the information on smoking.   In the end causing them to start to smoke at an early age by what they are shown from the media.   Smoking is everywhere on T.V, magazines, movies, etc.   Smokers may only think their decisions harms themselves, but in reality it kills others. (Smoking, 61)
    Smoking is one of the leading causes of lung cancer, and heart disease.   Smoke consists of finely divided solid and liquid particles suspended in a gas form.   Although it is mostly made of carbon particles produced by the burning of fuel.   Smoking is drawing tobacco smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe into mouth often into lungs and puffing it out.   In 1950 scientists gathered evidence that smoking is dangerous to ones heath.   Deposits of small particulates in the smaller airways of the lungs can lead to a lung disease called emphysema.   When smoking; large particulates are deposited on the mucous lining of the lungs and the larger airways that lead into the lungs.   Overtime, large particulates and certain gases in smoke scar the lungs and damage the cilia, thousands of little hairs that line the airways. The cilia normally help move mucus and the pollutants that accumulate in mucus out of the lungs and toward the throat. (Encyclopedia, 520)   In heavy smokers, the cilia are paralyzed and the pollutants stay in the lungs....