湖北省荆州市监利县第一中学 2013 年高中英语 优秀作文选 Part III 社会生活篇 4344. Recently the Chinese government has announced a nationwide ban on smoking. According to the ban, from January 1, 2011, no one is permitted in public places. In order to make the ban known to more people, some posts and sings about banning smoking will be put up in public places. It is said that about 350 million people are smoking, of whom 75% are men an d 25% are women. Besides, about 540 mi llion people are influenced by second-hand smoking, and this caused over 100 thousand deaths per year.(吸烟)Smoking is HarmfulIt has been estimated that smokers have made up half of the population in China. And the smokers are becoming younger and younger, even in eluding some middle school students.Let me take our school as an example. Nowadays more and more students smoke in our school’s toilet or secret places. They have not realized smoking can do harm to their health. However, some students still enjoy smoking. Why? Because some of them think it is a kind of fashion, some think It is of great fun and others think that smoking can refresh themselves. In fact,Smoking is a bad habit. It can cause a lot of diseases even death. Meanwhile smoking is a waste of money. Besides, careless smokers may cause dangerous fires. Smoking is harmful and it is not only bad for smokers themselves, but also bad for non-smokers. Therefore, I hope all the smokers can give u p smoking for themselves and also for the people around them.
