High School and Smoking

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Cigarette_Smoking.asp

According to this website, 20% of high-schoolers smoke. Although I figure that this is very typical being that high-school is a very impressionable time in a kids life. They are struggling to fit in or want to think they are doing something cool by being a rebel or something.

The truth is that many children who end up smoking probably have easy access to it with in their own homes. The parents might leave their cigarettes out on a table and the child swipes a few to try and give to their friends as well.

The rest of them are probably the friend who isn't surrounded by the smoking stage but tries it out of curiosity anyway.

That is exactly what happened to me. One of my friends wanted to try it and offered me one. I turned down a full cigarette, however I took a few drags off of his. While he ended up finishing it, I had enough. I fed my curiosity and didn't feel like I needed to do it again. However, I may smoke a cigar or a cigarello (a mini cigarette) in special occasions like my brothers wedding for example or in a social setting where everyone wants to make a toast only with the cigarellos.

I think smoking is disgusting and find those who walk ISU's campus puffing on them simply unattractive. Some of the girls even turn my head but then I look to see a trail of smoke or the cigarette in her hand and just shake my head with disappointment. Such a waste to such a beautiful creation.