Teen Smoking

Teenage smoking is becoming a wide epidemic in America. There are many reasons why teenagers are enticed to light up. The most obvious reason is stress. Teens today are extremely stressed. There is more pressure to do well in school, play a variety of sports, take part in multiple extracurricular activities, and get accepted into the best colleges. Parents of these teens demand only the best from their children and add to the already high pressure. At the same time, teenagers have to learn how to balance school life and extracurricular with their social life. Friends are the most important aspects in a teen’s life and they will not ignore them. Smoking is known to relieve stress and help users relax, thus teens would use it as an escape. However, smoking is also seen as a “cool” activity and since friends are a huge influence, it is easy for teens to fall under peer pressure and take up the habit. What are the results of smoking? Smoking causes inevitable undesirable and sometimes deadly results. Smoking is a known cause of lung cancer, a disease that cannot be cured. Lung cancer can make a person’s life miserable and even cause death. Aside from lung cancer, other respiratory problems can arise from the smoking that can make a person more susceptible to other diseases. Heart attacks and cardiac arrests in smokers aren’t uncommon either. Hence, smoking does not result in anything beneficial to the user. It is a one-way ticket to health and skin problems that can never be reversed.