SMOKING+IS+NOT+CANDY!

SMOKING IS NOT CANDY! BY JESSICA AND ZOE

Every single day MILLIONS of people are dying from cigarettes. They are killing themselves, the environment and animals...... Cigarettes are made out of so many disgusting and unhealthy things that kill you like arsenic which is used in rat poison, freon which damages the ozone layer, cyanide which is deadly poison, sulphuric acid used in car batteries,cleaning products  and so many more disgusting and unhealthy chemicals used in cigarettes..... (click on the link below to see the chemicals in cigarettes and how they affect you) Did you know if you smoke 1 pack a day of cigarettes after one year you end up with approximately 250 mills of tar in your lungs. After a few years of smoking you could get a deadly sickness called lung cancer. The horrific sickness affects you by struggling to breath, coughing all the time and maybe death if gets to a point which it cannot be controlled by medicine, therapy, chemo therapy.

[|Click on this to see what chemicals are in cigarettes and how they affect you]

Who does cigarettes effect the environment? Springtime means flowers, fresh air, a blue sky and, chance to enjoy the beautiful outdoors. But all of that beauty is at risk because of how cigarettes are damaging our environment!

 Scientists have researched that 771.11 kg of cigarette buds are found in lakes, oceans and beaches and the rest of the environment every year and 4.3 trillion cigarette buds litter the earth every year! You don’t mean to harm your family, your pets, the wildlife and the environment you love by smoking and chewing tobacco but, sadly, that’s exactly what your tobacco waste is doing to the earth. It doesn't take a brainiac to make the connection between the cigarette butt you flick out of your car window and the cigarette filters found in the stomachs of fish and birds who mistake them for food.