Tobacco kills 1200 people a day, that’s two jumbo jets filled with men, woman and children. Cigarettes contain thousands of chemicals at least sixty of them are carcinogens. This means that more than sixty of the chemicals which people smoke in cigarettes are known to be deadly. Did you know that many of the chemicals found in cigarettes are also found in many other things like gasoline, bleach and rat poison? All these chemicals just add to the deadly drug that is tobacco.

       Why are cigarettes so addictive? The answer is nicotine. Nicotine is a deadly drug found in all tobacco products, it is what makes there product addictive. Nicotine raises a person’s heart beat circulating the harmful drug through your system causing your brain to slow down. Nicotine is a drug as addictive as cocaine and heroin, and just as deadly. The younger a person starts smoking the more likely they are to become strongly addicted to nicotine. Addiction to tobacco can occur after as few as smoking as few as one hundred cigarettes.

        Tobacco kills, it is a known fact. Tobacco can cause many health problems; it is a known factor in cancer, leukemia, emphysema, stroke, heart attack, and many other health problems. Smoking harms every part of the smoker’s body not just the lungs. It can greatly put you at risk for many diseases. Anyone who smokes buts the health of there family and friends at risk, more then 126 million non-smoking Americans are exposed to second hand smoke in homes, vehicles, and in public places.

        Smoking is not accepted in Hawaii’s society. A law was recently passed that banned smoking in enclosed public places, also including bars, restraints, malls, and clubs. It is illegal to smoke within 20 feet of doorways, windows, and ventilation intakes of the above areas.  Most of these places are aware that smoking is harmful and the youth that work in these areas do not want to be exposed to the extremely harmful effects of tobacco.

        Don’t buy tobacco’s lies. Tobacco companies target youth, they are after the youngest replacement smokers so that when people die form tobacco they don’t loose money. They know that tobacco is a deadly product; they know that by making smoking look cool that youth will want to smoke, they know that if they get you hooked young you may just be hooked for life, that’s why you need to stay strong and say no when pressured to try your first cigarette.