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Once teens start smoking, they have trouble stopping causing them to have future health problems. Most teens start smoking before the age of eighteen because they are pressured by friends, movies, magazine ads, and role models. Every day three-thousand teens become committed smokers. A lot of underage smokers believe that smoking will raise their position in society. A few teenagers start smoking because they might not know the damage a single cigarette can do to their body. If a child grows up around a smoking parent, then they will likely smoke in their teen years. The effects of smoking can be deadly; 440,000 deaths are created by smoking. These effects can be caused by the 4,800 chemicals in a cigarette, 69 cause cancer. Smoking can harm somebody who is first born to somebodies death. Smoking causes leukemia, pneumonia, heart disease, and stroke. Toxins can go anywhere in your body. To stop smoking is the hardest part. The ingredient in a cigarette that makes it addicting is a chemical called nicotine. This chemical is the most addicting chemical known to mankind. Nicotine causes smokers to either relax or have a rapid adrenaline rush. Twenty minutes after someone stops smoking their blood pressure decreases, their pulse rate drops, and the temperature of their hands and feet will increase. If somebody starts smoking then it will be hard to stop, and will cause harm to their body.

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