Smoking

People tell you that smoking is bad for your health, can lead to illness and death while also damaging those around you. So if this is the case, that smoking leads to illness then why do people choose to smoke?
Many people begin to smoke at a young age, thinking that it is the cool thing to do, to fit into the group, look like “the hard one”, there are many reasons why people begin to smoke at a young age. However, smoking, like any other drug (which nicotine in cigarette smoke is), is addictive. Thus once people realise that smoking is not as such a cool thing as they once believed when they were younger, it is, usually, too late. People have spent the best part of their life smoking and have damaged their health beyond repair.
Here is a website that explains the risks of smoking;

http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html

So is it really worth it, the image that smoking gives, to look cool, even sexy some would suggest, against the dangers that smoking has against your health, is it really worth it? Some would say yes, that we all die eventually so why does it matter how or when, me I’d much rather live as long as I can.