Don't Smoke! Essay 24  Frances DeMasi Middle School, Marlton, NJ
Last Modified: November 1, 2001  I know you've heard this a
million times. Smoking can kill. You probably think you know
everything about them, like they hurt you. Well, there is a lot
more than that. They can give you lung and mouth cancer. Would
you really like that? It also makes your breath smell terrible,
and your clothes too. It might even make the walls of your house
yellow because of the smoke. I would never smoke because it
disgusts me, and I hope you will say NO when someone asks you to
smoke.  It isn't very easy to say NO. Peer pressure is one of
the largest reasons kids smoke. When a friend asks you to smoke,
it's hard. Also, when you don't know how bad smoking is, it's
even harder. I've learned many things about smoking in D.A.R.E.
(Drug Abuse Resistance Education). The officer who taught me
showed our class something that really taught us how dangerous
smoking is. He had a fake man with a cigarette in his mouth.
Then officer Kenner