How Smoking Affects Your Life and People Around You

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How Smoking Affects Your Life and People Around You

I have watched a man try to convince me he's not a smoker, as he holds a cigarette in his

hand. People come up with many intricate and clever excuses to assure themselves, as well as

others, that they are not smokers. Whether you decide to call it "Social smoking", or try to label

yourself solely as a "Party smoker", you are a smoker. A few of my friends only have a cigarette

or two at a party, or with a drink. The rest of the smokers I know confess to their habit, but see it

as being far from harmful. People that decide to follow this habit, don't grasp the actuality that it

is very dangerous to their health. As well, they have no idea that it is also threatening to the

people around them such as friends and family. Cigarettes, whether you smoke twenty a day or

only two, will dramatically affect your life in ways you'd never suspect.

Smoking has definitely affected my life, and now at the age of seventeen, I can recognize

all the changes. My older sister, the person whom I looked up to the most growing up, is a

smoker. At the age of twenty-one, my sister has been smoking for a steady six years, starting at

the age of sixteen. At that age, I was only 13 and was well informed that she had started

smoking. I began to notice that her clothes started to smell of smoke and that she would

constantly be spraying herself with perfume. I also noticed that her teeth were beginning to reveal

a pale yellow color. Having my own sister transform into a smoker came as a big shock to me,

and I vowed to myself that smoking would never become a part of my life. Not only was I

wrong, I had no idea what was in store for me.

As the years went by, my sister's smoking habit no longer came as a shock to me, but the

addiction was still crude. As I turned 15, I started to notice that one of my good friends had

started to smoke. I was in utter disappointment, and I spend countless hours trying to persuade

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