On almost every street corner in America, you will find a teen smoking. Even though a number of commercials and school orientations have given the effects of smoking, the kids feel they are invincible to the effects smoking can cause. Tobacco companies have targeted the youth, ages eleven to seventeen, because they are the future of their industry and very influential. The future of America has been the focus of their progression. However, how can we have a healthy outlook on the future if 34.8 percent of our youth are inhaling five hundred chemicals into their bodies?
While no one really understands why teenagers take their first puff, whether it's peer pressure or another reason, the fact is that they do. Obviously they don't care much for their health. A very common t
There is a plus side to cigarettes. The outrageous tax the state puts on cigarettes helps keep the economy up. In the state of Indiana, each pack is taxed $.55. In other states, such as New York and New Jersey, taxes are as high as $1.50 a pack. While this is good for the state, this puts a hurting on the smoking consumers. The average cost of a pack in Indiana is $3.15 and a whopping $6.90 in New York. If you want to make a good investment, don't smoke for the next 20 years. On top of the possibility of cancer, you will save yourself on average $11,497.50 (based on a pack of cigarettes costing $3.15). Of course this is if the prices of cigarettes stay the same, which they won't.
heory on why teens start smoking is obviously peer pressure. On numerous occasions, I hav
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