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With the publication of the report on smoking, the campaign for some action against it is renewing its hopes of the steady change to a possible non smoking Britain.

Without doubt smoking is the worst public evil of our time. With so much money to spend the young person of to day looks for some means of ridding himself of some money. Smoking seems to provide just the right thing. It makes him look big, grown up and with something to show scorn about when he finds someone who doesn't indulge. So the main cause of smoking is too much money and too little sense.

People who smoke say that they get pleasure from smoking. This may be so but this is only caused by smoke and the drug Nicotine. Is the pleasure one might get from a cigarette worth the damage it causes to one's health? It is a known medical fact that people who smoke stand a very good chance of dying or suffering from lung cancer. A smoker always has bronchitis worse than a non smoker.

If the lungs of a smoker and a non smoker are compared, it is seen immediately that those of the smoker are coated with black filth, whilst those of the non smoker are for the most part clean. With the ever growing amount of filth being poured into the atmosphere by factories, car fumes and fires, must this filth which everyone has to breathe be magnified by smoking?

It has been known for a long time that the drug Nicotine present in tobacco is harmful to health, and it is this drug which causes addiction to smoking, so it can be seen that smoking is a form of drug addiction.

Even if smokers are not worried about their own health, surely they might have some consideration for that of others. Smoking in public places often causes distress and one often has to view things through a haze of smoke.

Thus smoking damages one’s health and may lead to death. Surely man's most precious thing is life and surely he should try to keep it.

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