QUIT SMOKING BEFORE SMOKING QUITS YOU

An Essay

By

Name : Siti Hardiyanti

Student Card No : DP18020089

Days : Sunday

Time : 08.00 – 12.00 WIB

Term : III/2018

Class Teacher : Mr. Mares Soplanit

LBPP LIA DEPOK

2018
Title : Quit smoking before smoking quits you

Type of writing : Argumentative

Purpose : To persuade the readers not to smoke

Introduction
Thesis Statement :
Smoking has many disadvantages on people’s life, at least three reasons.

Body paragraph:
A - First, smoking may influence on teens
 Most of the teens believe that smoking is a trendy thing
 The many assumption smoking can reduce stress
 Curiosity about want to try smoking

B - Second, smoking can harm the smoker’s health

 Causes serious health problem such as:
o Damage to respiratory system
o Damage to health productivity
C - Third, smoking has develop risks on smoker’s
 Smoking can have a bad habit
 Smoking can have an addiction
 The smoker’s mood that can easily change

Concluding paragraph
According to the medical dictionary, definition of smoking is the inhalation of the smoke

of burning tobacco encased in cigarettes, pipe and cigars. One of the most common

problems today that are killing people, all over the world, is smoking. Based on the

statement of the minister of health, about 36.3 percent of all adults are smokers. In fact,

statistics show that the average age for first using tobacco is 13. This means that the

majority of all tobacco users started when they were a teenager. The effects of smoking

are common and dangerous, but what most people don't realize, passive smokers are

just as bad as active smokers. In my opinion, smoking has many disadvantages on

people’s life.

First, smoking may influence teens. Most of the teens believe that smoking is a

trendy thing. When those teens see other people smoking, especially their parents or their

peers, they also want to try it. Teens believe everyone around them smokes and take it

as a normal thing. They do not find anything odd about it. Teens believe what their friends

tell them about smoking. They think they will be admired if they smoke in their school.

Another reason teen smoke is curiosity about wanting to try. In fact, that cigarettes make

them look cool. For example, if their friends are smoking, many teenagers will begin

smoking simply to maintain their acceptance within the group. On the other hand, some

teens start smoking just out of curiosity. From this curiosity, they will try to smoke, and

whether they like it or not, it will become the basis of decision. However, most of them will

not quit after their first cigarette because if they quit, then their friends might say that they

are not cool. For instance, if the teenager has a group of friends, and every one of them

smokes except him, this teenager feels weird when he hangs out with his friends, and he

ends up start smoking.

 Second, smoking can harm the smoker’s health. Cigarettes content besides

tobacco, is a combination of harmful chemical compounds like ammonia, carbon

monoxide, nicotine, mercury, tar, and hydrogen cyanide. Those substances will be burned

into smoke that will enter someone’s lung. According to World Health Organization

(WHO), A middle-aged cigarette smoker who has smoked for decades is times riskier

than someone who has never smoked in his or her life. Tobacco smoking is well known

to be a major risk factor for various cancers, lungs and cardiovascular problems, and is

also linked to other health problems, such as complications in pregnancy, low sperm

count for men, dental problems, and cataracts.

Last, smoking has develop risks on smokers. Smoking is a hard habit for many

people to break. Why is it so hard to break smoking? Cigarettes content nicotine, a highly

addictive substance found naturally in tobacco. It moves quickly to the brain when it is

inhaled and it can cause a feeling of temporary relaxation and stress relief. Nicotine can

also improve your mood and your heart rate. But this feeling is only temporary. Like heroin

or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so addicted to the nicotine in

cigarettes that a person needs to have it in order to feel normal.

In conclusion, it is a must for parents to keep an eye on their children and teach

their children about the dangers of smoking and ensure that they are leading a healthy

lifestyle. Because smoking has many disadvantages. When a child becomes a smoker, it

hard to break the habit and the child will be expose to many diseases caused by smoking.
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