Answers to the fifteen questions

Today, I would like to give you answers to the fifteen questions which I asked in the previous

post and talk about the danger of smoking in detail. I hope every one of you understands smoking

does us more harm than good especially when it comes to smoking by teenagers. First of all, did

you know there are about 200 toxic substances contained in tobacco smoke, which includes

nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide? (see the questions no.1 and 2) As you might know, these chemicals are very harmful to the human body. For example, a number of smokers are suffering
from lung cancer. (see the questions no.5, 7, 8) However, smokers are not the only ones who pay
the price for smoking ― as mentioned before passive smoking has a strong effect. (see the
questions no.3 and 14) Therefore, smokers must keep in mind smoking harms their health as well
as the health of people around them.

According to Japanese history, tobacco was originally introduced from Portugal in the Edo
era. (see the questions no.4 and 6) Since then, Japan has been overlooking the danger of smoking,
although there are millions of people dying from smoking because they are much addicted to it.
(see the questions no.9, 10 and 11) In fact, in Japan, there are no shocking images printed on a
case of cigarettes and warning sentences are very small, which is a violation of the law in other advanced nations. Besides, Japanese teenagers have almost no trouble in getting cigarettes because there are a couple of vending machines in streets. The reason why Japanese government is too easy with smoking is probably that it can earn a lot of money by imposing tobacco tax. (see the question no.13) I think this is a serious problem because in Japan there are some smokers who smoke in public as if they were regarding it as something cool or fashionable. Stop for a moment and consider disadvantages inherent in smoking ― what if tobacco being lit hurts an eye of children or how much money cigarettes cost. (see the questions no.12 and 15) I believe this is a good way to start give up smoking.

Written by Yuki Taniguchi