Interesting Web sites about smoking

Today, I would like to introduce two Web sites about smoking. The first one(http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html) explains how much harm smoking does to the human body. Although this Web site contains some shocking pictures, I recommend you to take a look at it. I suppose you will be surprised at how dangerous smoking is. The second one (http://www.npr.org/2012/01/02/144451043/japanese-smoking-culture-proves-hard-to-snuff-out) explains smoking in Japan, but I think this Web site tends to use exaggeration. For example, I don't feel
smoking is all but synonymous with manhood for Japanese people. However, this Web site contains some interesting articles as well ― I believe that Japanese government is taking advantage of tobacco tax as mentioned in this Web site.

fifteen questions about smoking

1. How many toxic substances are contained in tobacco smoke? Ans. about 200
2. What is the main toxic substance of cigarettes? Ans. nicotine, tar or carbon monoxide
3. What is passive smoking? Ans. the inhalation of smoke by people other than the intended
   “active” smoker, second-hand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke
4. What language the word “tobacco” is originally from? Ans. Portuguese
5. What kind of disease will smokers have? Ans. cancer
6. When was tobacco introduced to Japan? Ans. during the Edo era
7. What is tobacco made from? Ans. the leaves of tobacco (tobacco is also used to make pesticide.)
8. What influence does carbon monoxide have to human bodies? Ans. to hinder blood
   from carrying oxygen
9. How many people die because of tobacco every year? Ans. about 5.4 million
10. What percentage of smokers will die because of tobacco? Ans. about 50 percent
11. What percentage of smokers can stop smoking completely? Ans. about 30 percent at the
    most and about 10 percent at the least
12. What is the temperature of tobacco when it is lit. Ans. about 700~800 degrees Celsius
13. In Japan, how high the tobacco tax is? Ans. About 60 percent
14. Which is more harmful, active smoking or passive smoking? Ans. passive smoking
15. Imagine that you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, which cost you 400 yen. Then, how much money you will pay for tobacco in a year. Ans. 144000 yen

I LOVE SMOKING AND I CANNOT STOP!!

Hello I am 60year old man smoking ever since I was 20. I think there is no point in limiting the age for smoking cigarettes. I have smoked for a long time and I went to hospital because i had trouble breathing. i had cancer and was told that I cannot live for a long time. But WHO CARES!!! I love smoking and i cannot stop it just becasue I might die soon. It is our choice to smoke or not, and I chose to smoke. It is my life and I am of smoking! I'm smoking and I'm proud! I have no regret in my life. Doctors have no right to tell me how long I can live, I make that choice! Without cigarettes there is no reason to live for me.

we need to limit smoking somehow

Hello I am an eleven year old girl. My parents smoke and so does my brother. They are always smoking so, my house smells like cigarette all the time. I heard that there are chances of me getting cancer eventhough I do not smoke. Second hand smoke was it? I do not want to die eventhough I do not smoke. I wish that my family quits smoking becasue I want them to care about me about the dangers of second hand smoke.

An example of smoking by teeagers

I took up smoking when I was a high school student in Japan. The reason why I started smoking is that my senior students recommended me to smoke, although it was the violation of the law. At first, I thought smoking was cool and fashionable. Besides in Japan tobacco is easy to get because there are lots of vending machines in streets. However, now, I'm suffering from smoking. I cannot concentrate on my study without smoking a cigarette. I know I'm addicted to it, but I cannot possibly give up smoking. My high school days were completely a mess, because I was always having a quarrel over smoking. I hardly talked with my family because they hated tobacco smoke. I hardly had chances to make friends with my classmates, because they regarded me as a juvenile delinquent. I sometimes "borrowed" money from my parents so that I could buy cigarettes. It was terrible, because I know I was being taken advantage of the government considering it gets too much tobacco tax, yet nevertheless, I continued betraying my friends, neighbors, and family. If I could go back in time, I wouldn't depend on cigarettes.

I am a heavy smoker(15 year old)

I am smoking 15 year old. I am heavy smoker and smoke over 3 packs a day. I cannot live without the cigarettes and without it, I cannot live. I am a Japanese student, and I want to keep on smoking eventhough it is illegal. I love smoking and cannot live without it. Making age limit is useless for me because I was smoking ever since I was 12. My first time was when my father told me to buy the cigarettes from a vending machine. I am being told to stop smoking by my teachers, otherwise the teachers are going to expell me from my middle school. I believe that it is easy for people in Japan to buy the cigarettes, and to stop making teenagers like me, I would like to support for keeping the underage from smoking in Japan.