Smoking at the ages of 13-15

Smoking at the ages of 13-15 By: Paniz Adiban

Introduction Smoking is a worldwide problem that harms a lot of people. It gives diseases and causes many deaths. Smoking for teenagers is very harmful since they are young and can be harmed easily. They will also die sooner than adult smokers since they started early. Smoking is bad for everyone and not only the smokers, since there is also second hand smoking. Second hand smoking is when you breath in air that has the smoke of a cigarette in it.

Data

Graph This is a graph to show the percentage of children at the age of 13-15 smoking in the African continent.

Explanation This graph is about the smoking of early teenagers 13-15 years old. It says how many teens smoke in Kenya, Cote d l’voire, Algeria and Congo. Kenya has the most teen smokers. It also says what percentage of the teens smoke.

Conclusion In total 1-person dies every 10-11 seconds from smoking tobacco that is why people should quit smoking. If they don’t, the number of people dying will increase overtime. There is also second hand smoking, which is breathing in the air someone smoked in. So lets help make a change.

Source http://www.inforesearchlab.com/smokingdeaths.chtml http://apps.who.int/whosis/data/Search.jsp

Smoking at the ages of 13-15