Speak for 5 minutes: Although smoking is an unhealthy habit, about 20 per cent of young people smoke. Why do you think this happens? If you were a school headmaster, what would you do if your schoolchildren smoked inside and outside the school? What should parents do in such situations?
Today, more and more people begin to smoke. What is worse, not only adults, but also young people and even kids begin to smoke. Everyone knows, that smoking is bad habit, but very few people try to leave off smoking. Smoking is very unhealthy, it hurts physical fitness, couses cough, cancer and many other long-term consequenses. Only in United states of america every year tobacco kills more than 440 thousand people, that equals to small city population.
Syrveys show, that approximately 80% of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18. This fact is terrible, because tobacco effects young man more than adult. Teens who smoke are three times more likely than nonsmokers to use alcohol, 8 to 22 times more likely to use drugs.
I think, that smoking is so popular nowadays, because it is adveritised in many ways like movies, television, magazines and so on. What is more, many teenagers think that it‘s fashionable to smoke, and their friends will think that they are really tough if they smoke.