About 106,000 people in the UK die each year due to smoking! This is a shockingly high number and because of this the government are now desperately trying to lower the number of smokers in the UK. They have created many hard hitting adverts and have made it very easy to access help to smoke smoking.
Many teenagers start smoking because they think it is cool but this is not true at all. Smoking can seriously damage a persons health; It can cause breathing difficulties and can even lead to lung cancer! Now what is cool about that?! Smoking is very expensive and a pack of 20 cigarettes can be as much as £6! They can turn teeth and nails yellow and make breathe smell aswell!
If people know that cigarettes can cause all this damage to their health (and their bank account lol) then i dont understand why they would start! I understand it is an addiction and is hard to quit but some people dont even want to try....
There are many ways which a person can get help to quit smoking. There is nicotine patches, nicotine gum, hypnotism and counselling. Quitting 'cold turkey' is obviously very hard but one of these ways surley must be of some benefit to those that want to quit!
People blame their smoking habit on being stressed but there are others way to releave this stress other than smoking a poisonous cigarette!!
My mum smokes and i keep trying to persuade her to quit but so far nothing has worked! She spends so much money on cigarettes and smokes alot each day. I am very worried about how this is effecting her health but i cannot force her to quit, unfortunately it has to be her decision....
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