Cause and Effect
When I was eleven years old, my best friend Michelle Baker and I thought that we would look more grown up if we started smoking. My parents smoked, so we devised a plan for me to steal their cigarettes, and then Michelle and I would meet behind K. J. Clark Middle School to smoke. We thought smoking would make us more popular with the older kids who hung out there. The next morning I sneaked into my mother's room and stole a pack of Pallmall Gold cigarettes from her carton, and a pack of matches from her bed table. I hurried out the door to school with the overwhelming fear my mother would catch me before I could get there. I ran two whole blocks before I met up with Michelle. I proudly showed her my stolen pack of cigarettes, and she was impressed with my story of how I was able to slip the smokes out of the house. By her reaction, I just knew I was becoming more popular already. Michelle and I walked to the b
Much like a heroin addict, I go though withdrawals. I am more likely to get colds and develop respiratory problems. Children of smoking parents are more likely to smoke as adults than children of non-smoking parents. We each took one cigarette and lit it up. My belief that smoking would make me look older was not altogether wrong. My smoking has also endangered the health of my family. I am unable to run very far without losing my breath. I fell asleep holding a cigarette last night. The hold this addiction has on me is incredible. I wake up in the middle of the night to light one up, and it is the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. When I let my hand relax, the cigarette dropped and burned on my right hand. Asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema are always a lingering threat. I cannot go a day without a cigarette; I am addicted. By smoking, I may have influenced my children's chance of a healthy future. It was the nastiest thing I had ever tasted! I tried to inhale the smoke as I had seen my parents do, but instead of breathing a long sigh of satisfaction, I thought I would cough up a lung.
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