GAMBLING WITH THEIR LIVES is
the title of an article by Patricia Curtis.In this article the writer has described about the deadly habits i,e, smoking among the teenagers,especially those of 18 to 24.Here she has focused on the teenage girls.According to her, girls are also swayed by celebrities and models who smoke to stay thin.
Patricia takes down the real stories of three girls namely Alex Leo(25),Katie Laster(24) and Victoria Tucker(29),who are addicted to smoking from early ages.In this very article it is said that everyday,about 4,000 young people take their first puff,and,as Katie Laster did ,some 1,300 become daily smokers.They are all aware of the health risks,but they just don't care and try to find the invincible way in smoke.Laster always thinks it's bad to smoke and during every time she smokes,thinks that would be the last one but never.
Similarly,an administrative specialist for a management consulting company in Atlanta,Victoria Tucker says that she knows everything about the side effects,but couldn't quit.She ,eventhough,committed that she would never be a vulgar smoker,she did .
Alex Leo is suffering from the same kind of problem.She is the editor in New York City and started to smoke when she was 14.
All of them know about the drawbacks of smoking and the deadly effects of nicotine but they are not being able to escape from this habit.These girls tried their best to be off from smoking a number of times but did not succeeded.
But hope never comes to an end till our existence,so hope for the golden days and wish for these girls.
By the way ,through this article the writer wants to verify the combined effects in life of a human being who tries to quit but can not quit smoking easily.So prevention is better than cure always.Never smoke,never regret for it.