“Two Ways Of Looking At Smoking”

The word “cigarette” is a very hard word for those who don’t smoke. They think this act is useless and there are no benefits. Some people think it is a social thing, they only smoke when they’re at parties or drinking wherever they are; they can’t drink without smoking. Others say it’s not bad that it does in fact make you a more relaxed person and makes the skin looks better. There are many stories about smoking, I smoke and what it means to me is not any of the previous reasons, and I’m not saying it is good to do it, but I have my own opinion about it. I started to smoke when I turned 18 years old, because in Mexico there are too many people who do that, and it doesn’t mean I had to, but you become more easily attached to this product when everybody does it. I’ve always been surrounded by people like this, so I thought “what can I lose?” and started the process. You begin to smoke when you think there’s nothing wrong with doing it. You tell yourself “Ok, if she does it, I don’t think it would be bad for me to try it”, so you start generally with your friends. They tell you that if you don’t like it, you can just stop doing it. The first time I tried it I coughed, which is the most common reaction in the first three or four times you do it. I was watching my friend Natalia do it and I could not believe what she did. She made it look so easy to do, but I saw how that stick was burning down and like magic it came out in a ghost shape; it was too much for me. When you try it once you may not like it because it’s not a nice taste. It’s a unknown thing you have never experienced and you’ll say “Ew, I won’t try this again” but the thing is that teenagers are so manipulative and if you don’t do it again they may say to you “Okay, you’re gay” or laugh at you, because they want you to do what they do that is wrong, and they know it,