Samuel

My life of wonders By Samuel Li C2 Yesterday… I was nervous to introduce myself to the whole school, but was confident to make new friends. I won a sports game, but failed to show good sports men ship. I was delighted to get a new toy, but despised in trying to fix them. I always tried to follow my dream, but never tried to work hard for it.

Today… I am nervous to perform something before an audience, but is confident to practice by my own. I won a debate against my mother, but fail to let her buy me something I wanted. I delight in meeting my friends in school, but despise in doing homework. I always try to do my best, but never try to keep things tidy.

Tomorrow… I will be nervous to get my first job, but I will be confident that I will work hard. I hope that I will win many friends, but will maybe fail to be a good leader for them. I will delight in being affluent, but will despise in spending them on not necessary things. I will always try to make a good living, but will never try to make life very luxuriou s.

Smoke Ban?

There are over 2.4 million deaths in USA annually, more than 440,000 of these deaths are caused by smoking. From that crazy number, we could see how big of a problem smoking is, compared even to drugs and suicide. I believe that we should work together and ban this monster from harming more innocent people, solve the problems that banning smoking might cause, and stand up for what we believe in.

My main reason for banning smoking is that it is extremely harmful to your body and is scientifically the main cause of many diseases. Tar, a substance of cigarettes coats your lungs and causes lung cancer. A mixture of Nicotine, a highly addictive substance and carbon monoxide increases your heart rate and blood pressure, which could lead to heart diseases. Smoking is not only harmful to your own body but to others too. The smoke that spreads out in public areas is even more toxic and has is more cancer causing than the mainstream smoke. One out of two lifetime smokers die out of cancer. 50% of those deaths occur in middle age. People who smoke are proven 10 times as likely to die of lung cancer than people who don’t smoke.

Since smoking is such a harmful cause, why haven’t we banned it yet? There are several reasons. People may say that if smoking is banned, smokers will still smoke due to the addiction. Worse, cigarettes will end up in the black market and become more expensive, possibly make poor smoker’s family broke. Also, many people argue that they know the risks of smoking, but still want keep their own freedom and choice to smoke. Many people look at smoking as a form of entertainment, and want to have the right to keep doing so. In some places, smoking even develops into a culture. Banning smoking will even make many huge tobacco companies bankrupt, ruining a large source of economy.

Banning smoking will certainly cause a lot of difficulties but I believe that we should still try. Making smoking illegal will benefit the ones that haven’t started smoking yet, like the younger generations. Taking away their access over the cigarettes will let them no longer get affected by their role models or movie stars thinking smoking is cool. That will prevent them of getting into a habit. We could use a part of the money from donors and organizations to open more hospitals for quitting, and can even make cigar an antidote of the addiction. The hospitals can give the smokers cigar legally with gradually decreased nicotine and other harmful substances and fight off the addiction. Personally, I think that we should work together and ban this big cause of death from the society.

All in all, I think we should ban smoking because of its great harm to our people. We should work to help smokers quit even when we face a lot of difficulties. I understand though that will take away the people’s freedom, but I believe that it is the right thing to do and will greatly benefit our human kind.

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