Mai’s Blog

Mai Vang

Composition 1

E4.2

4/5/07

Description: Smoking Causes unhelathy body parts.

Smoking Effects

My uncle was 17yrs old when he started smoking. He is now 22 and he still smokes. He now has asthma. Smoking causes him to sleep a lot and can’t get out of bed sometimes. Smoking make him don’t want to do the things he use to do. He is not active anymore. There can be a lot of damages to their health. Smoking cause’s asthma, lung cancer, and gum disease.

Smoking causes smokers to have asthma. This is shotness of breathing; it causes the airway to close. It makes them breath hard when they run. They also have to take deep breaths and try to calm them self down. It is really hard for my uncle to just walk up a hill. He had to breathe really hard. Sometimes while walking and breathing hard at the same time, he feels like he is going to have a black out. That makes him slow down and he have to rest for couple minutes.

Another effect would be gum disease. People who smoke tend to develop gum disease which makes their gum turns black. Gum disease causes them to also have bad breath. No matter how many times they brush their teeth and rinse their mouths, it will still smell bad. My uncle doesn’t have Gum disease yet but his breath does smells. It has this nasty odor when he talks close towards people. Smokers will have yellow teeth. Tars will build up and soon they will know that their teeth turn yellow.

 Lung cancer would be another one. People that have been smoking for a long time will develop cancer. Cancer leads to death which there is no cure for cancer. Cancer spreads fast and it limits your life on how long you will be able to live. Smoking makes your lungs turn colors which is black. It will dry your lungs up which you die from it.

Smoking causes smokers to have these kinds of effects to their health. There are many other kinds of effects that will cause you to slowly die. I know people who have died from smoking. It is not easy to quit but you have no choice, it’s either you die or you quit smoking. Many and many people are dying each year because of smoking.