Current News #8

"If smoking is so bad for you, who still does it?"
by Andrea M. Kane, CNN.com

Smoking is bad, and by now that is a fact that most everyone in America is aware of. A recent discovery is even finding a link between toxins that are left on curtains, clothing, hair, and other things that are around "after the smoke blows itself away". It obviously puts you at higher risks of diseases, such as cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, cervix and stomach. But if this is so blatently clear to the people of our nation, then why is it that so many people still smoke? It has been noted that about ninety percent of people who smoke started in highschool, and it is also true that the younger you start, the more likely it will be that you continue as a heavy smoker. Many people interviewed who smoke would like to quit, because they feel it is so socially unexceptable, many saying that there friends do not smoke. It is interesting that a couple of the interviewees had said that they started at a young age, at an attempt to "fit in" with a certain crowd. A the story goes, one woman explains how she is no longer in touch with the old group that encouraged her to start, but still remains with the filthy habit.