Exposition Writing (Independant) 2019

This week in literacy, I have been doing some exposition writing. My topic was on why smoking should be banned for everyone. Here is my writing~

Why smoking should be banned for everyone

Do you have a dark, smoky secret that is hiding deep down inside of you? Something you possibly know isn’t right to do and bad for your health, but you just can’t restrain yourself from it? Is it smoking? Smoking is extremely bad for your health and can be very addictive.

Smoking can affect you all over your body, ranging from your brain, lungs, heart, throat, mouth, skin, bones, stomach, blood circulation and more. The poisons from your cigarette can enter your blood and make it thicker, also it makes your blood pressure and heart rate increase, forcing your heart to work harder than normal. Smoking can cause fatal diseases like pneumonia, emphysema and lung cancer. Your skin can go dull and grey from smoking when there is not enough oxygen coming into your lungs. It also causes your skin to age between 10 and 20 years when you smoke, causing facial wrinkles around the mouth and eyes. Believe it or not, cancers can also be found in your lips, throat, tongue, voice box and gullet, which is often caused by smoking. Research proves that if you smoke 10 cigarettes regularly every day, you have a one and a half times more of a chance to develop kidney cancer compared to a nonsmoker.

Did you know that a pack of 20 cigarettes can cost around $25.45 in New Zealand? Why spend your hard-worked-for and precious money on something that is bad for you, while instead you could buy 3 pairs of Nike socks for the same price or less? In 1865, James Bonsack invented cigarettes. His new hand rolled cigarettes were sold to the soldiers who came back from the civil war, and by 1881, his creation had been spread in many more places. Money is very important in everyone’s lives, but many people choose to waste it on bad substances like cigarettes.

A certain bad habit called littering affects the environment immensely. Most people just think that it is just rubbish and plastic affects the environment, but littered cigarette butts also do this as well. On annual international coastal and urban clean ups, 30-40 percent of the rubbish found is of cigarette butts. Cigarettes are one of the most littered items on earth, and each year, 4.5 million cigarettes are discarded each year. Cigarettes are not biodegradable and can take up to 10 years to decompose. By littering cigarettes, they can play a part in creating, land, air and water pollution.

In conclusion, with the effects that cigarettes give to our bodies, the environment and the waste of our precious money, cigarettes should be banned to make the world and people a better place. We MUST not let the cigarettes litter the environment and our lives!!!

By Kyra