What Are The Negative Effects Of Smoking Essay

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People often think negatively of smoking. Even people that smoke think negatively of smoking. Smoking is a bad habit to have. It can ruin your life, and it can ruin other people 's lives as well. It is the leading cause of lung cancer and has almost no good effects. The only good effect it has is on the companies that are selling cigarettes. Smoking should be terminated before it damages anymore lives.
Smoking has many very bad consequences. It has side effects that can alter physical appearance. It can cause a smoker 's skin to age faster. It causes wrinkles in the face and throughout the body. Smoking causes bad breath and a fowl smell in general. No one likes the smell of smoke. It can also cause a person 's teeth to turn yellow and look very
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Eye sight can get worse and worse over time. These are just a few of the negative consequences that come with smoking. Schmitt 2 Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer can kill a person. My grandfather died two weeks ago from lung cancer. He was seventy-three years old. Seventy three. He had smoked for forty years and had been dealing with the consequences to the day he died. He had lung cancer numerous times throughout his life. It became such an expected occurrence that he had check-ups every year to make sure the lung cancer had not come back.
This year, however, it did. And sure enough he was just too old to handle the chemotherapy that comes with fighting cancer. He lost his life to smoking. If he hadn’t been a smoker for as long as he had his chances of living would have increased tremendously. Smoking kills thousands of people daily, even people who don 't smoke.
People who smoke also effect people who don 't smoke. This is called second hand smoke. When someone who doesn 't smoke is around someone who does, their chances of lung cancer increase. Second hand smoke also increases the chances of breast cancer

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