DISADVANTAGE OF SMOKING

When the last time you see someone smoking?it seems today that most of the
youngsters including some of us here think that smoking is something common and
we do not have to worry about. But that thinking is wrong. According to history today,
"each year, smoking kills more people than aids, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes,
murders, suicides and fires---combined!!"Over 430,000 U.S Citizens die each year
from smoking. As college students, some of us smoke and some of us have differently
thinking about smoking.

Do you know the content of a cigarette? Over 4,000 chemicals can be found in tobacco
smoke includedradioactive materials (polonium-201) ,materials used in paints
(acetone),floor cleaner (ammonia), mothball (naphthalene), pesticides , termite poison
(arsenic), toxic gases (hydrogen cyanide) used in the "gas chamber death" of
offenders under sentence of death, and more.

Today i want to inform to my audients about disadvantages of smoking. There is

having 4 disadvantages of smoking:

Firstly, health problems. Health problems are the obvious disadvantage to smoking.
The American Cancer Society warns about the dangers of nicotine addiction on their
website. When you inhale the smoke from a cigarette, it is breathed deeply into your
lungs. Smoking has been connected to several types of cancer, including lung cancer,
pancreatic cancer and larynx cancer, as well as diseases such as emphysema and
heart disease.

Secondly is smell. Smokers tend to have a distinctive smell because the tobacco odor
clings to their hair and clothes. Their houses and vehicles also pick up the smell if they
regularly smoke indoors at home or while driving. Nick Gromyko and Rob London of
the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors explain that tobacco odors often
persist long after cigarette smokers move out of a house because it saturates the living
areas and circulates through the ventilation system.
Next is family disadvantage. When you smoke, your family suffers. If you smoke in the
house, you are putting your family at risk for the same health problems that smoking
causes. When they breathe in secondhand smoke, they also are at risk for lung cancer
and emphysema. Mothers who smoke while pregnant adversely affect their unborn
babies. The March of Dimes notes that smoking while pregnant doubles your chances
of having a low-birth-weight baby, which can result in health problems, mental
problems and even death for your baby.

Finally is cost. Cigarettes are expensive, but the product cost only represents a small
part of the overall cost. Smokers face higher costs for many other things, like
professional dental cleanings, dry cleaning and even life and health insurance. In
Malaysia, price of a pack cigarette is RM 6 and above. According to Hilary Smith of
MSN Money, Uninsured smokers have a bigger risk of incurring major medical bills
because cigarettes cause so many health problems. They face a harder time finding
employment to get insurance or money to pay the bills, as Smith reports that 5 percent
of companies prefer to hire non-smokers and 1 percent refuse to hire smokers. Think
about that!

In conclusion, today I have shared with you several different aspects of the hazards of
smoking. I hope all of you get something used from my speech for your life.

Thank you for give attention.