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Although smoking affects people's health, it Although smoking effects people's health,
also affects the way they look, causing skin it also affects the way they look. The skin is
damage, yellow teeth, or bad breath. affected in many ways. For example, tobacco
smoke has a drying effect on the skin's surface.
Secondly, since smoking restricts blood ves-
sels, it reduces the amount of blood f lowing
to the skin, which deprives the skin of oxygen
and essential nutrients. When these two things
happen, the skin gets damaged, which makes
it have a grayish, wasted appearance. Besides
smoking affecting the appearance of skin, it
also affects the color of your teeth and the smell
of your breath. Your teeth gradually change to
an icky gray color and your breath has an odor
which could keep people away from you.
Along with harming yourself, you harm many Along with harming yourself, you harm many
others. Just like smokers, a non-smoker others. Just like smokers, a non-smoker
breathing second-hand smoke can be also breathing second-hand smoke is exposed to
badly affected. roughly 3,700 different chemicals. Many of
them can be poisonous; others are powerful
cancer-causing substances, such as
formaldehyde. The more second-hand smoke
you breath, the greater risk of a heart attack or
stroke, and the greater risk of lung cancer.
In conclusion, people who smoke are increasing In conclusion, people who smoke are increasing
their chances of death, bad looks, and of their chances of death, bad looks, and of harming
harming the health of others. the health of others. Today, many people are
beginning to realize the hazards of smoking
and make the wise decision to quit. I just hope
that others in the future will look at the facts
before they decide to take their f irst puff. They
won't realize it at the time, but they could be
saving their life at that very moment.
Adapted from: “Second-hand Smoke.” Retrieved on January 31, 2013 from http://www.writework.com/essay/against-smoking-
persuasive-essay-and-describes-many-reason.