Discuss the causes of and problems of teenage smoking

Teen smoking is becoming more and more popular all over the place. It’s also become a huge problem because of the kind of effects it has on young life forms these days and the effects that will catch up to them in the future. It seems like everywhere you go like malls, movies, and grocery stores, you see a group of kids outside smoking without a care in the world who might see them and as if they have been doing this for forever. Why would a 15 year old want to smoke in the first place? Well, if you really get deep into it, you’ll probably find out that most of these teenage smokers come from a home in which they grew up with parents who smoke on a regular basis right in front of them, they think it will make them look older and cooler than what they really are, and maybe they even believe that smoking can calm them down, relieve stress, help them to concentrate, have a good time or any of the dozens of reasons that smokers can come up with to hide the facts. Teens are shortening their lives by choosing to pick up the nasty habit of smoking because of the life threatening effects and problems they open themselves to at an early age. They make themselves victims of heart diseases and complications as they continue to grow up. All smoking is really doing for these teen are giving them problems with their body in the future, and not allowing them to pass drugs tests when they apply for a job.