Rachel

Pet-Peeve Don't Smoke Period 1**
 * Rachel Izegbu

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 * //S// moking, the one thing that really makes me want to pull my hair out, it makes me want to punch a wall and just scream. Do you know what smoking does to you? It completely ruins your body and it can also hurt others. How about what it does to the environment, do you know anything about that? When I see someone smoking, I just want to rip that cigarette out of his or her mouth and crush it under my foot. Of course, I cannot do that, so instead I will enlighten smokers about the dangers of smoking. Maybe that will get the cigarette out of their mouths.**
 * //M// ost people smoke,and when they do, they are slowly killing themselves in one of the worst possible ways. Smoking fills the human body with extremely harmful toxins. Smoking causes around 5.4 million deaths a year. It sickens me to know that second hand smoking causes about 25% of those deaths. Thousands die every day all over the world from this nasty habit. This is a message to all smokers, when you smoke you are killing yourself; you are not helping yourself in any way. Eventually if you decide not to quit you will die, plain and simple. The “lucky” smokers are sent to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit).**
 * //O// nly sometimes it may seem like smokers are only hurting themselves, that is partially correct. Smokers not only damage their bodies when they smoke. If anyone is near enough to someone smoking a cigarette and they can inhale the various toxins coming out of the cigarette that is called second hand smoking. Some people smoke around children or other people as well. It seems as though they don’t care that they are hurting other people, which really ticks me off. No one should have to go through that against his or her own will, especially small children. If you want to ruin your life by smoking, do it somewhere else, don’t go near anyone else, just don’t put that on them! The last reason I hate when people smoke is the littering.**
 * // K //icking around is not what garbage cans are meant for, the way I have seen people discard cigarettes is atrocious! I just cannot believe how may cigarettes I have seen on the ground the 13 years I have been alive. I have also seen some cigarettes laying on the ground just a few steps away. I mean really, a few extra steps wont kill you. Although on the other hand, maybe you should not have picked up that cigarette in the first place. Either all of this litter stops, or everyone is going to be trudging around up to their knees in a sea of cigarette butts.**
 * //E// nough is enough! We have all seen the television ads telling us that smoking is bad for you. They tell us that it can give you lung cancer and all sorts of terrible things. Even though we see these, people continue to smoke. I have heard about how hard it is to quit, but I still don’t understand why you started in the first place. Why smoke when all it does is ruin your life? Why smoke when it ruins mother earth? Why smoke when it will kill you? Don’t smoke when nothing good comes out of it. Don’t smoke when all that will happen are bad things, it will not benefit you at all. Be a good example and don’t** **make the mistake of picking up a cigarette.**