What is your view on smoking.

All people have their good and bad habits. The habits which are recognized as good ones for example are punctuality, reliability, honesty etc. Bad habits are easier to define. The most serious bad habits are alcoholism, drug-taking and smoking. J think that the most harmful habit is smoking because smoking of cigarettes is not forbidden such as drug-taking.

A lot of young people think they look more mature when smoking. Sometimes it is stress which pushes people into the habit. They smoke to calm down, to compensate for failure, boredom or dissatisfaction. Almost all smokers are of the opinion that the cigarettes are good for their nerves, stimulating, relaxing and therefore they are not ready to give up the habit. But I think that it is never too late to stop smoking, because the risk of different illnesses decreases after smokers give up the habit.

A lot of people suppose if government rise the taxes for cigarettes that people won't smoke as many as now. I do not agree with them because lots of smokers buy our cigarettes in duty-free shop where the cigarettes are free of tax and duty-free. So money is earned by other country which can allocate much money for prevention smoking.

Nowadays a lot of people stop smoking. From 1997 to 1999 amount smoke cigarettes fall about 4 billion apiece cigarettes.

I think that smoking cigarettes is foolish habit but people must give up this habit themselves and no prohibition do not change this.

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