Smoking has been associated as a negative behaviour. Although the parties who linked with the cigarette industries have tried effortlessly to show the public how cool and “macho” smoking is, people nowadays has been educated enough to determine which is good and which is bad.
Nevertheless, there are always new smokers come out from anywhere. Although the government has banned any advertisement on smoking from entering the mass media, the people especially the youngsters still get influenced easily to start smoking.
People who smoke portray a bad attitude of himself. They will be less respected by others. Other people will look down to smokers, and judge them as a non-serious person. For school students, if they smoke, they will get a greater punishment by the society. They will be labelled as naughty boys. They will be associated to any other disciplinary problems such as gangsterism, vandalism as well as drug addiction.
Research shows smoking leads to drugs. Students who smoke during their schooldays always end up being a drug addict. When you become a drug addict, you contribute to a bigger problem to the society. Drug addict has the tendency to commit crime in order to get money to buy drugs. This act will create an uneasy environment in the society.
Besides, smoking students also tend to bully other students to get their money to buy cigarettes. Usually, the senior smoking students will bully their junior in this kind of situation. As we all know, bully has been a major problem in most schools in our country. Pupils who got bullied will experience fear, oppressed and grow up being a person with inferiority complex. Not many of us know that behind the bully problem lays another problem which is smoking among school students.
Another problem caused by smoking students is of course a health problem. Smokers obviously are less healthy than the non-smokers. They are exposed to dangerous disease such as cancer. Unhealthy citizens can not contribute more to the country. In fact, the country needs to bear the cost of their medication and hospitalization. What a waste!
