Dear Mom,

I know you don’t want to hear this, but you’ve got to stop smoking! You’re not only hurting yourself, but others too. Every time you breathe in that smoke you breathe in over 4,800 chemicals. They all go to your lungs and hurt your body. Think about when you were pregnant; you stopped smoking, because you didn’t want to hurt me. You didn’t want all the chemicals getting to me, so why would you let them get to you.

Speaking of hurting other people; what about second hand smoke? Not only smoking a cigarette is harmful, but breathing in the smoke is too. If anyone is around you, like me, they can get second hand smoke, and be harmed also. Every year second hand smoke kills over 3,000 people. Do you want one of them to be me? Do you want the feeling of killing a person, because you were selfish, and “needed” a cigarette to hang over your shoulders?

I don’t think so. Don’t say you can’t stop smoking, or that you “need” cigarettes, because people need water not cigarettes. People all around the word quit all the time, so it’s not impossible. I’m willing to give support no matter your attitude change. You being a little rude is worth seeing my mom on graduation day, years from now.




Love,





Hannah a.k.a. Miss P.