・⌣・Tobacco Safety

By: Paola G. Chicas

The Health and Safety movement is seriously important. Especially Tobacco. This has affected all teens and adults in the world to smoke.  This is affecting their health in a bad way(because their lungs are damaged each time when they smoke). This movement started in 1964, when congress decided to add warning labels (Ex: WARNING: This product could affect your health. If you use this product too much, you will get cancer. Please use it responsibly) on cigarettes and drugs. In order to smoke or drink, you’ll need to show your license if you can smoke and drink (Not “Drinking” Orange juice, “Drinking”  beer/wine until you get drunk.) or not, and you have to be 18 or older. Before this movement have started, Teens and Adults smoke whenever, wherever, and whatever they want. Children could barely breathe the air (THEY ARE BREATHING SMOKE FROM THE CIGARETTES! NOT GOOD!!!) thanks to the Teens and Adults who smoke.

One of the 2 people who made people stop smoking is Jeffrey Wigand. Wigand used his knowledge to tell all smoking companies to stop making cigarettes and drugs so teens and adults will become more healthy. He was born in 1942,  in New York city. In the 1990’s, he said that smoking will cause lung cancer and bad stuff! People blamed Wigand since the law of tobacco safety was added. (What is wrong with people these days? Probably because they wanted dem money to buy more cigarettes.) Wigand is still alive at age 72.

The other person who stopped smoking is Doris Duke (Aka Richest little girl). She is a Tobacco Heiress (a female heir, especially to vast wealth). She gave birth to a child in July, but died within 24 hrs. But the bad news is that she lived a sad life… as the richest little girl. She died in October 28, 1993 in the age of 81.

Lots of events happened in the Tobacco Safety Movement, here is the top 3 important events of them all. (I mean the very important.)

1. Before the Movement was made, teens and adults were drinking (Please drink responsibly.) and smoking and getting drugs. This is a bad influence on children. Teens and adults smoking is bad enough, but Parents smoking? TERRIBLE!!! This is teaching their kids that smoking is normal and so they can do it when they become teens/adults. So congress decided to add warning labels on cigarettes and drugs so less teens and adults could take them.
2. The government added a law that teens 18 and older must show their ID to smoke. Smoking under the age of 18 means that you’re doing something illegal. Smokers under the age of 18 were mad angry when they realized that it isn’t all ages now (Who would smoke at the age of 9? Nobody, right?)
3. Cigarettes and drugs ARE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH. It will damage your lungs! If you keep smoking, you will get lung cancer! Trust me: getting diagnosed with lung cancer is even worse than being in the hospital measuring your head and getting shots to remove the cancer (You’ll find out if you have something in a result of the cancer, knowing it is gone for good. But how will you breathe with lung cancer???) You need healthy lungs to breathe, not lung cancer!).

In conclusion, think before you do, and never, ever, take cigarettes. Even if you have a curiosity of cigarettes and drugs. If your friend gives you a cigarette and says “Try it.”. Don’t do it! Remember: Never take cigarettes , it’ll destroy your health, give you lung cancer, and even worse: if you smoke everyday, you’ll die! So read the warning labels before even trying it, don’t smoke, or ever!

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