Another 6th grade Persuasive Essay
by Jana Young
May 15, 2008
95% of people who smoke will die from smoking or related causes. Smoking causes a lot of health problems. Second, cigarettes are very expensive. Third, they make you look all trashy and dirty. We think smoking is bad, and people who smoke should quit.
One reason to quit smoking is that cigarettes cause a lot of health problems. They are the most common cause of lung cancer. 4.8 million people died last year from smoking-related causes. Also, cigarettes can cause many other types of cancer including mouth, throat, bladder, pancreas, and kidney cancer.
Another reason that smoking is bad is that cigarettes are very expensive. If you smoke one pack a day for 50 years, it will cost you an astonishing amount of 1.3 million dollars!!! But, if you're stupid enough to smoke two packs a day for 50 years, you'll either be dead or down by about 2.6 million dollars! If you didn't smoke, you would save lots of money to buy other things.
Also, cigarettes make you look dirty and trashy. They make you stink and cause your teeth to rot. People might not want to be around you if you smoke and look dirty and stink. Also, cigarettes make your fingernails look nasty and yellow.
As you can see, cigarettes cause a lot of health problems, they are very expensive, and they make you look dirty and trashy. Therefore, we believe that people should not smoke, and if they do, they should quit or they will probably die.
By Jake and Cory
