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I am standing here, not to offend anyone that smokes but to persuade teenagers to quit smoking and to persuade people not to start smoking. Every year in the United States, 6,000 teenagers light up their first cigarette and 3,000 become regular smokers. Approximately 2.6 million packs of cigarettes are sold illegally to teenagers under 18 everyday1. People die because of Aids, car accidents, suicide, fires, alcohol but most of the people die from smoking. Almost every teenager should know that smoking is bad for you and that it causes many health problems, but why do they start in the first place? Peer pressure, advertisement, stress relief, and seeing family members, and friends around them doing it, are some of the reasons for teenagers to take the first puff2.
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