My Views On Teenage Smoking - Your First Cigarette

[Echo419]

Number 1 Anti-Smoking Statement - Smoking Doesnt Make You Cooler. - Keep this in mind

As an underage smoker for the past year today I come to you with the following opinions on smoking. People say smoking doesnt make you cooler, of course you will agree. But lets look at the style of young teenagers in america today... Pothead Bad *** Skater... Along with this is intertwined with Smoking. Now lets picture the modern day bad-*** teenager... Pierced Lip, Black Hair, Killer Beard, Spike Bracelets, Muscular, Giving you an evil look, smoking a cigarette. This is not anything we can change, as of now, its just how it is.

Now, as teens especially this month start highschool freshmen year, or maybe others. You will seek to flock with a group as soon as you can. Newcomers in school will want to prove there bad asses to get popularity with all the Punks and Skaters in an attempt to be cool. This isnt speculation this is truth. Now like I stated before what would an extreme stereotypical bad *** be that didnt smoke? So here we have the reason kids get close to smoking to begin with.

PEER PRESSURE. Does it work? YES... Will it work on you when you get to just the common easy hey man you wanna cig? Nah dont smoke. Haha You Dont? Your mind is racing take it or leave it, and be less bad ***... 1/2 of you will end up taking it... If you think you may be one who may take it read on.

You light up the cigarette. "Hey not so bad right? All this anti-smoking stuff for this... This isnt bad at all, and besides its worth it, I can fit in so much better with this group better". At this point your first cigarette is done, you will have a buzz like crazy, and for the first 5 minutes your impressed... So now you are 2x as likely to smoke another one next time you can, and you will get a buzz again... Now do this for a week or two, the buzz's are gone, and smoking has become an acceptable thing with you, you prolly wont be addicted, but you will smoke one.

Now I smoked for 6 months in regulation before getting addicted, 1 there, 2 here... 3 on a sweet night on the weekend... It just constantly increases, as your enjoyment decreases. It has now become something to do when your bored, something to pass the time... You still may think there awesome, I know I did.

Now at this point, you try running across the parking lot... You'll be out of breath... So what? I mean how many times am I really going to do this... Next thing you know you'll just be doing an easy workout, or a simple run in gym, or anything for that matter... You can't breathe...

You still wont stop... Why... my god why... Your mind tells you, hell why not? Already do it, not like its gunna get way much worse, and its kinda relaxing to smoke, after a hard school day...

Now try to take the 50 off break on a hot summer day in august... Where are your buddys now, where is the bad *** guy who offered you one? Why isnt he there gasping for air with you... Why? Because you made one of the worst decisions of your life. Taking that cigarette... I know I did.

I'm not going to lie.. I love my first couple days of smoking. But then after that you become not afraid anymore to say yes... And theres where you loose it...

YOU BECOME NOT AFRAID TO SAY YES. AND THERES WHERE YOU LOOSE IT...

YOU BECOME NOT AFRAID TO SAY YES. AND THERES WHERE YOU LOOSE IT...

Freshmen... and others who havent been asked for there first yet.... Say no... Just say no, It is Not Ok to smoke just one... It is Not ok to take a hit... "Hey not so bad right? All this anti-smoking stuff for this... This isnt bad at all, and besides its worth it, I can fit in so much better with this group better". What Group? The Group that all got busted by the cops last week after robbing the gas station...

YOU BECOME NOT AFRAID TO SAY YES. AND THERES WHERE YOU LOOSE IT...

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Smoking- No
Drinking- No

Honestly, I laugh at all the kids who smoke in my school. Slowly killing themselves, draining their wallet, killing old friendships, etc. It's just stupid. It's one of the reasons I dont go to parties often.

[Echo419]

There are a seect few of you 10% I would say... Antoehr 30% doesnt have friends so no bother there... So there still is 60% problem in my opinion

[Kevmaster]

if you need to smoke to be cool, i'm truly sorry for the terrible existance of a life you live.

[Echo419]

That barely has any bearing of relativity of what I said...

[spantol]

Quiter.

[personman]

good post.

its true.

[quik]

I dont smoke or drink, but if others want to, I dont really care. I dont have the motivation to stop anyone from doing most things.


also,

https://www.livejournal.com

[Army]

It's hard enough to get through this life without bombing out....why light a fuse?

[Target Practice]

Underage smoking due to peer pressure is a sign of weakness, simple of that.

Justify it all you want, you're still killing yourself.

[spantol]

You say that like it's a bad thing. I wish more stupid decisions were fatal.

[Echo419]

Underage smoking due to peer pressure is a sign of weakness

Quoted For Truth...

quik why are you giving me this live journal crap.. im trying to help people my god

[atm743]

soo are you still going to smoke??


really i think you should stop now. my dad told me stories of when he used to be into some drugs when he was your and my age (15) ands he said its not worth it. he said that he mad the biggest mistake of his life

now he smokes regular sigs. he trys to stop but cant. last year i was dianosted with asthma and i think to my self that it was his falt. he used to smoke just a little bit in the car and in the house. then i usd to get bad short of breather spells. i got worried about it till after a year later i couldent do lots of things. i used to be able to run alot and breath fine then all of the sudden ill get really out of breath and dizzy.

i went to the doctor and they said that i had asthma. i did a test and after take asthma meds after a month or soo they said that my breathing got 41% better. i have to do breathing test were you breath out and messures how much air you can breath out to tell how much you can keep in and i was at like 2 or so liters or whatever they messure it at. after taking my meds (advair) i was able to hold about 4 to 5 liters

i sometime tell him that its his falt that i have asthma and dosent belive that second hand smoke can do that and i know it can. after saying that to him alot he stopped smoking around me.

also


later on when i go to colledg i can see my mom or family calling me saying that my dads in the hospital cuse he has lung or some sort of cancer. i can see it now and im tring not to.

really if you want to keep your life i would stop smoking NOW. i have family members that smoked and died REALLY YOUNG because of it .


you will never get anywere from smoking other than getting high and thinking you are cool. if you hang with people that smoke and if you started to smoke to hang with them you are a compleat retard. if you can do much better then that.

i as well think the same with drinking.

my uncle is and i think still is acholic. he was soo bad of one that he had to get air lifted to a hospital and treated. my patents never said this but i think that he was really close of dieing from it.



i have never tried to smoke because A i have asthma and get short of breath really fast B theres no need for it. if i want to get high ill just eat alot of chocolate.

i have drank before. i had drank a smiritoff and a margarite mix thing called taranchilla margarita or somthing its blue its really good but i dont drink to try to be friends with others and try to get into groups. and i dont drink regualy only at partys and when i say partys thats like one or three times a year like new years and christmas and my birthday with is a week and a day before christmas and i do because it tasts good and is not addictive if i drink only once

[Echo419]

Take ATM Here for an example... His life was afected, even though he did nothing, so imagine what could happen to you. And yes Atm I did stop

[bleachit]

"We flushed your sin sticks down to heck. Smokers are Jokers, smokers are jokers"

Rod and Tod for the win.



if you start smoking nowadays, you suck at life and get punished accordingly later on...

I just cant stand the morons who smoke directly outside of buildings so I have to walk through that crap... I have asthma and allergies, so why should i have to put up with their stupidity?