Banning Smoking

Many people smoke and think they have a right to. The truth is they do, but they shouldn't. There is nothing cool about it. You hurt yourself and everyone around you. If you like hurting people than it is right for you.

When I was about 12 years old I watched my grandma die from lung cancer, which was caused by smoking. She smoked for over 50 years. She lived for a little over a year after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. In the beginning of December 2005 she went into remisson. We hoped that it was over. A week before Christmas we got a phone call saying she had collapsed in Wal-Mart. After all the test they ran they found out that the cancer had gone to the brain. She went though a lot of radiation. They said she had the maximum amount a person could have. She even had more chemo therapy. About Feburary they told us the chemo was not working and there was nothing else they could do for her. She was the stongest woman I know. She over- came so many things in her life and this was the harderst even though she lost the fight.

I know that in certain parts of some states it is banned but it should be all over the United States. So before you pick up that next cigarette think about how it will hurt your friends and family and yourself.