Good morning chairperson and fellow classmates. As you may have already guessed, I am doing my speech today on smoking.

Smoking is still the ’in’ thing to do in most teen groups today and many youths see it as a mark of adulthood. And middle aged diseases such as cancer, emphysema and other heart diseases seem so far away to many adolescents and young adults.

I mean look at it from their point of view, you’re young, mentally as well as physically strong. Why would you get sick, or become addicted to anything? And if you do start smoking, you’ll be able to quit anytime you want, right? Wrong!

It has been clinically proven that the younger you start, the more likely you will become strongly addicted. Nicotine, the addictive substance in cigarettes, is one of the most addictive substances known, even more so than heroin.

Also, being addicted isn’t a sign of weakness – it’s a sign that the drug has ca

And over a period of time smoking can lead to the narrowing of the blood vessel’s that lead to your brain; cause cancer of the lungs; chronic bronchitis; narrowing vessel’s to the skin causing premature aging and I’m sorry to say it but for the guys that smoke, it also causes narrowed blood flow to the penis causing impotence.

Just one smoke can cause dizziness, dulls your sensation of taste and smell, increases your heart and pulse rate, and paralyses or reduces the function of the little hairs, which sweep the dust and dirt out of the bronchial tubes that lead to your lungs

Include anti-smoking education in all youth programs. Stop the sale of smokes to youths and the display of tobacco promotions.

Some topics in this essay:
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