Rama Naser

Ms. Shukairy

Writing 1

November 2, 2013

                                                                            Smoking

  ​  Would you like to go to restaurants and have someone smoke near you? NO! People would not want to second-hand smoke or want the smoke to get on my food. There are children in the restaurants; it is not healthy for them. It is also not healthy for the adults either or anyone because everyone’s body is affected somehow. The less people smoke the better. Then people might be able to stop, and if they don’t then they can get help to stop them from doing so. Smoking should not be permitted in restaurants.

              Smoking is unhealthy for you and your body. One reason is smoking causes cancer and other diseases. "Chemicals in cigarette smoke affect the entire body. This causes so many diseases, including so many types of cancer, heart diseases and the various lung diseases."(www.cancerreaserch.org). Thesecond reason is your lung start shutting down and it changes color. "... Your lungs become black".(www.lung.com). Lastly, 443,000 die each year from smoking. "Each year an estimated number of 443,000 die from smoking". (www.cdc.gov). Stop smoking it is not good for you.

              One day I was at a restaurant called, Bravo. I was with four of my best friends Lulu, Reem, Suzanne, Shams. We ordered our food and talked about our day for a while. Our Italian food came and when we started eating and sharing what we did today. Aman who smokes came and sat on the table behind my friend who has asthma. He started smoking and blowing smoke, not paying attention to who is around him. My friend Shams haswho has asthma was sitting directly behind him. So she started coughing and we were all worried about her. The result in Shams coughing made us leave the restaurant with sadness because of my friend. The man apologized and didn’t realize that Shams had asthma. I picked this thesis because people withhealth risks are not safe.

Some believe that smoking should be allowed in restaurants. One reason is it's a free country; they could do what they want when they are by themselves because not everyone can take the smoke and they don’t have to hurt people while they hurt themselves because you don’t deserve it if you care about what happens to you. Another reason is they are in control of themselves and if they want to harm themselves they can. Atthe same time, they have to make sure who was around them when they smoke. This argument is weak because of there are many health risks. Some of the health risks are death, Lung cancer, depression, sadness, etc.

             In conclusion, smoking is damaging to you and your body.You don’t want to risk your life doing something that’s not going to do anything for you in the end. Smoking should not be allowed in restaurants. Smoking should become illegal or at least don’t do it in public because you never know who is around you and you may end up taking their life. Life is too short for you to sit there and harm yourself when you could be doing great things to help yourself and your community. You could be donating to charity, cleaning your neighborhood, joining clubs, or doing anything to help you get your mind off something you shouldn’t be doing. It will also make you a healthy person on the inside and help you feel good about yourself. I hope that everyone who smoke get to realize that they need help to prevent them from smoking. It would be nice for them to grow in a happy, healthy family. Everyone learns from their mistakes and smokers have to realize that they have to too.