All of these reasons were taken from online websites... Reasons not to start smoking... 1. I'll have fewer wrinkles, especially around my mouth. 2. If I do not start smoking, I'll save enough money in one year ($900) to buy all the CD's or jeans I want! 3. My breath will smell better than my dog's. 4. I'll be around to spoil my grandchildren. 5. At restaurants I will not have to go outside for a smoke while my friends talk about me! 6. My parents and doctor will stop preaching to me about not smoking. 7. I'll live longer and be less likely to develop emphysema, heart disease, stroke and cancer. 8. I want to keep my edge and not feel or smell like an outcast in public. 9. I won't have to worry about how smoking is ruining my health. 10. I won't have to hide my habit from my parents. 11. None of the really "cool" rock stars I know smoke! 12. My fingers won't get frost bitten when I go outside in cold weather. 13. I'll be able to exercise without gasping and do better in sports. I'll be able to run faster than my teammates and opponents. 14. I'll cough less. 15. I'll be able to taste and smell food. 16. I will have fewer ear and respiratory infections. 17. My lipstick won't smudge. 18. I won't have to wonder if my date is bothered by cigarette smoke. 19. My teeth will be whiter. 20. I won't waste time looking for a smoking area everywhere I go. 21. I'll stop wheezing. 22. My date will not say that kissing me is like kissing an ashtray. 23. (For women) My baby will be at lower risk for sudden infant death syndrome and lower birth weight. I will also save my unborn child from nicotine withdrawal. 24. (For men) I will not have to worry poor sexual performance (impotence) when I get older. 25. My fingers and fingernails won't turn brown. 26. It's one less thing to carry around. 27. I will not be burning holes in my favorite clothes. 28. My car and bedroom won't reek. 29. I won't need to look forward to receiving oxygen through a nasal tube. 30. I'll have more energy. 31. I'll save money on dry cleaning. 32. I'll have friends (since the vast majority of adults do not smoke). 33. I will not allow anything (nicotine) to control my life. 34. I'll want to be a good role model for my brothers and sisters. 35. I will be in the majority! Smoking isn't "in." 36. I will have better job opportunities. 37. I will show my friends that I have the guts to say "no" to something that is not good for me. 38. I will not become one of the adults who dies every 13 seconds from a smoking-related disease. 39. I will show the tobacco companies that they cannot fool me into smoking by their slick advertising or clever promotions. 40. I do not want to become one of the young smokers who replaces an adult smoker dying of cancer. 41. I'll have fewer pimples. 42. I would not put bad gas in my car, so why should I put formaldehyde (the same stuff used to preserve frogs), cyanide (the same poison that kills rats), nicotine (an insecticide found in bug killer) and 4,000 other bad chemicals into my body with each cigarette? 43. Not smoking is cool. Being cool is really about making your own choices, being true to yourself, and not listening to what some of your friends (or TV, movies and magazines) tell you to do. 44. Why would want to cut eight minutes off my life for every cigarette I smoke? 45. Why would I want to be the sucker that the tobacco companies got to replace the adult smoke who died from tobacco-related disease? 46. Adult smokers come from teen smokers who can't quit. Ninety-five percent of smokers started when they were kids. So why should I start? It's really only for kids! 47. I won't have to worry about being asked to show identification with my age. 48. My allowance will last longer. 49. Other people will stop looking at me like I'm stupid. 50. I will have one less bad habit. 51. I will have one less New Year's resolution. 52. I will prove to my parents that I am capable of making good decisions. 53. I will not have to hide in a bathroom to sneak that "needed puff." 54. I will not have to carry around mints to hide the smell of my breath. 55. I will be on the road to developing into a healthy human being who will be a good role model for others. 10 Reasons Not To Smoke 1. Smoking under age 18 is illegal. Using, holding, or buying of cigarettes can get you in serious trouble, especially around school. In regards to school, you can be suspended, or even expelled! 2. Smoking reduces your ability to do things that require endurance, such as sports, etc. The tar in the cigarettes covers up alveoli, which help you breathe, which makes for less surface area for gas exchange. In other words, you must breathe more to get the same amount of oxygen as if you didn't smoke. So the effect that has on sports is that you will get tired quicker due to a lack of oxygen, which inevitably reduces your endurance. 3. Smoking can seriously harm your body in ways of cancer, emphysema, etc. Also, it leads to your early demise. 4. Smoking is a repulsive habit, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. 5. Smoking makes you and your enviornment stink. Your room stinks, your house stinks, your clothes stink, and, if you have one, your car stinks. 6. The nicotine in cigarettes are extremely addictive, and, chances are that if you start early, then it'll be harder to quit the habit. 7. Smoking may cause tension between friend and family relationships. If anyone gets upset that you smoke, then you'd probably get angry and fight with that person, defending why you smoke. 8. It is also a very costly habit. You may lose all your money before you know it. For example, let's say that you smoke one pack of cigarettes per day, and the price is $5.00 per pack. Then every month you'd spend approximately $150.00 on cigarettes alone! That money could definitely be put to better use, such as to pay bills, or simply to go to the movies with someone once a week. 9. Why pay extra money to the government? With the high taxation of cigarettes, you're basically donating your money to the them. Approximately half of the price on a pack of cigarettes is tax! 10. Contrary to what you might hear in songs or see on TV or in the movies, smoking cigarettes DOES NOT MAKE YOU LOOK COOL! Just how deadly does a cigarette get? 1. Cancer Causing Agents in Cigarettes (carcingoens): Nitrosamines, Crysenes, Cadmium, Benzo(a)pyrene, Polonium 210, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Nickel, DibenzAcidine, B-Napthylamine, Urethane, N.Nitrosonornicotine, Toluidine. 2. Metals in cigarettes: Aluminum, Beryllium, Zinc, Magnesium, Mercury, Gold, Silicon, Silver, Titanium, Lead, Copper. 3. Other chemicals in cigarettes (and examples of what each is used for/comes from): Acetone: Nail Polish Remover Acetic Acid: Vinegar Ammonia : Floor / Toilet Cleaner Arsenic : Poison Benzene : Makes Dyes and Plastics Butane : Lighter Fluid Cadmium : NiCad Batteries Carbon Monoxide : Car Exhaust Fumes Cyanide : Metabolic poison Cloroform : Anasthetic DDT/Dieldrin : Insecticides Ethanol : Alcohol Formaldehyde : Preserver - Body, Tissue and Fabric Hexamine: Barbecue Lighter Methane : Swamp Gas Methanol : Rocket Fuel Napthalene : Mothballs Nicotine : Insecticide, Stimulant, Addictive Drug Nitrobenzene : Gasoline Additive Nitrous Oxide Phenols : Disinfectant Stearic Acid : CandleWax Toluene : Industrial Solvent Vinyl Chloride : Makes PVC Want more? Sources: http://www.teengrowth.com/index.cfm?action...subdesc=Tobacco http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/healthsite/reasons.html http://www.livoniacsd.org/Parents/SrHighSc...dbook/6reasons/ Zain.
too much of anything will kill you.. you could probably throw "penicillin" in there and say its a toxic mold, or water for that matter
Here is a twist. A Good / Best Reason TO SMOKE is Depression, Sadness, Stress, and not Getting what You want Out of Life. Zain.
