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Denise Garcia
Professor Trazzera
ENC 0027
May 22, 2015

Smoking Habits And It's Health Risk

With the awareness today of how harmful cigarette smoking can be to ones health, it makes me wonder why people continue to pick up on this nasty habit everyday? By deciding to pick up this preventable habit, people not only place there own health at risk but others as well. It is estimated by the "Center For Disease
Control And Prevention " that tobacco claims the lives of 443,000 people each year.
The urge to begin smoking may occur for many different reasons. As a teenager, it may start out as just wanting to experiment or pressure from there peers. As adults, the urge might come from dealing with stressful situations, or boredom. Over a period of time smokers may find themselves falling into a routine. They may feel the temptation to smoke right after eating a big meal, because it gives them a relaxed feeling, or it could be, because they are social smokers , and it helps them to unwind.
For which ever reason people decide to pick up smoking, it does not come without consequence. Smoking increases your chances of developing lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which restricts air flow and makes it difficult to breath. Unfortunately, for some smokers they find it very difficult to break this unhealthy habit, regardless of the road it leads to.

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But for others , they have figured out what, where, or even who