Editorial: It Will Suffocate Your Lungs by Mayra

Smoking isn’t something to be proud of. Smoking harms anyone, including the little ones. There are people that smoke and people that don’t smoke at all. Second hand smoke is as bad as just smoking a cigarette.

Even though the law states that people can smoke outdoor, they should make a law where it states no smoking near public places where a lot of people go to. To aware the harms that the smoke causes. Second hand smoke makes you more likely to get lung cancer and other types of cancer and there at least three times as much. It’s a lot of chemicals in tobacco that causes lung cancer and other type of cancer. For example there is a fact that states that there is more than 7,000 chemicals, including hundreds that are toxic and 70 that cause cancer. Nobody wants to have cancer caused by someone else smoking, just by standing near that person that is smoking. These are other facts that are given to prove that secondhand smoke is as bad as smoking tobacco by yourself. Between 70% and 90% of non-smokers in the American population, children and adults are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke. People that are exposed to secondhand smoke really don’t know that it will harm them.

Although smoking is bad, people still like to smoke even though they know facts about smoking and secondhand smoking. We shouldn’t force them to stop smoking; they should know what  harms it can cause.Maybe this is time for you smokers to turn on your light bulb and realize what you are really doing to yourself and to the others. Make sure if you want to smoke a cigarette to not be around the people you care for and the people you love. Just by one inhale of smoke it can harm and kill.