Theres a lot of worse things that teenagers can do than smoke. Aren there other things young people should worry about before smoking?
Cigarettes kill more Americans than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, drugs and fires — combined! That doesn’t mean that these other killers should be ignored, but we ought to remember that cigarettes are deadly and addictive. If you know someone addicted to alcohol, learn about alcohol rehab. Lots of my friends smoke, but they can stop whenever they want to — it’s not like they’re addicted. 46 million adults in this country smoke and most of them want to quit. The fact is, nearly all adult smokers began smoking as children. The average smoker begins at age 13 and becomes a daily smoker by age 14-1/2. The problem is many kids and teenagers are addicted and they don’t even know it.
