The high school hallway bell rang loudly, letting students and staff know that 2nd period was over. As I made my way to my locker, I saw dozens of kids going out to have a smoke at Fireman's Park.
"I've always wondered how many kids in this school smoke cigarettes," I said to one of my friends.
"A lot," was her blunt response. I never knew much about nicotine. I had always wondered about it. My grandpa has been very ill since 1998 has come around; this is because he has smoked for about 40 years. Recently, he was just released from the hospital, where he was for almost a month. He had fluid in his lungs, and the cigarette smoking was literally eating him from the inside out.
I wanted to know more about how I could help and what I could do to learn more about what nicotine actually is. I also wanted to know how nicotine works and why it is such an addictive drug. I was really confused on the topic,; Ihad never learned about any of it,nor taken any health classes that dealt with the topic. What are the effects? What types of cancer can you get from it? How many people smoke? How many people have died from smoking? Millions of questions ran through my mind as I started out my search.
I am really doing this paper to find out what I can do to help my grandpa. I really want to
know how this affects him and what will become of him if he continues this. My grandpa means a
When I started out, I was not sure exactly where to go, but I knew the LMC would be my
best bet to find out what I wanted to know. Sure enough ,I was right. I found 3 great books as
sources of information in the library. They told me everything I wanted to know besides statistics,
and that I could find on my own later.
I was going to talk to my grandpa and see what he had to say, but he wasn't able to
because he was ill with lung problems due to smoking.
I decided my best bet was to do a survey. Then I c
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