Name : Audina Putri

Class : XI IPA 3

Subjects : Sastra Inggris

The Dangers Of Smoking for Teens

Smoking is a cylinder of paper length between 70 to 120 mm with a diameter of
approximately 10 mm containing the to bacco leaves that have beentatooted.The ciggarete
burned at one end and allowed to simmer so that the smoke can beinhaled through the mouth
at the other end.Smooking is usually sold in a bundle or box-shaped packaging paper that can
be incorpororated aesily into pockets.Smooking wast first originated from indian tribes in
America ,but the tribes used to smoke is for ritual purposes such as worshiping gods or
spirits.After the 16th century,when Europen explorers discovered the American continent,
they began trying to smoke cigarettes and then bringing the tobacco to Europe so that
smoking began to emerge among European nobility, but in Europe people smoked only for
the sheer pleasure. After the 17th century Spanish merchants began to enter Turkey and by
that time the smoking habit began to enter the islamic countries.

Smoking as a teenagers puts him at risk of serious health problems because he is still
at the age of growth, this cigarette not only causes health problems on the physical level but
also emotional. Experts reveal the health risk of smoking in adolescents is much worse than
adults who smoke.

According Mutriyani (2011) adolescense is a vulnerable peroid for a person to

engange in deviant behavior like cigarette. A teenager is no longer spoken of as a child, but
still not mature enough to be said mature, so often fails to consider the impact of his own
behavior. Teenagers are also looking for the lifestyle that suits them best and this is often
done through a trial and eror method. That sometimes has a negative impact on him and
others like smoking.

World health experts through many research proved that cigarttes ate very harmul to
the health of the body in addition to causing dependence also cause many diseases, such as
cancer, respiratory disease, hearth disease, adverse efects for birth, emphysema,etc. Those
who first try smoking will usually feel a cough because of the smoke entering the lungs and
because smoking makes the effect of dependence a person will bw hard to escape from
smoking habits, although they know the dangers and risk exposed to various diseases, such as
written in every box of cigarette packs “ Smoking can causes cancer, heart attack, impotnce
and pregnancy and fetal disoders”.

The biggest cigarette toxin is produced by the smoke that rises from the trip of a non
smoking cigarette. Because the smoke produced comes from incomplete burning of tobacco.
Cigarette smoke contains harmful substances such as benzene, nicontine, nitrosamines,
aromatic, naphthalene, ammonia, oxidant, cyanides, benzapirin carbon monoxide, and others.
These particle will stelein the airways and are very harmful to body. The sediment of
cigarette smoke is also easily attached to objects in the room and can last up to more than 3
years still dangerous.

And now te younger generation/students have now hesitation in trying to smoke,

although with clandestine even many elementry school children who try to smoke. No
wonder the number of people who depend on smoking is increasing rapidly, even those who
are already more dependent on smoking than from cigarette smoke or World No Tobacco
Day under the ausipces of the World Health Organization.

Hopefully teenagers and the public can awaken to the danger of smoking for their
health and immediately abandon their smoking habits, so that their health is maintained and
will make their bodies health and avoid the diseases that threatens their lives.