1 quit as 10 starts

A good friend of mine told me something really shocking to me recently. She was in Johor Bahru, her hometown. As she was eating with my family in a nearby restaurant near a secondary school, she saw a lot of students walking out from the school as school finishes. Then not long after that, smoke fills the area. A group of students including girls are smoking, puffing tar into their lungs right outside the school. She said that they looked merely just 13-14 years old.

When i paid my attention listening to the ages mentioned and cigarettes involved, i deeply felt pity and sad. It is not for myself but to them, teenagers and even some of my friends. One thing i would like to admit, i'm a smoker myself too. But, the main thing is, we smokers who had smoked for a certain period are mostly to be found regretful of our actions. As we all know, smoking are hazardful to our bodies. Therefore, we smokers that faced those circumstances before would tend to quit smoking. BUT, as each one of us wants to quit, 10 teenagers would like to start.

Have we ever wonder why teenagers would wanna start smoking? Is it for the looks? The impression of them being 'cool'? Stress and hypertension? Or just playing around where a lot of teenagers claimed to be doing with cigarettes. Most teenagers that 'played around' with cigarettes will eventually get addicted to it and start wasting their money buying it. To all of you teenagers, what will you be thinking looking at people at young ages smoking across the streets spoiling themselves? Think before you do something not worthy and end up regretting.