School Policy on Smoking
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I am a student at Chatsworth High School. I am for the ban. If we allow adults to smoke and not students, students will try to copy the adults and start smoking themselves.
Smoking-related illnesses include heart disease, cancer, stroke and chronic pulmonary disease. These illnesses kill about 390,000 people each year in the United States.
So why would you want to smoke?
MARK BOLITA
San Fernando
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