I dislike smoking very much. I cannot breathe in the house full of smoke. My father smoke a lot now and it is really hard for him to get rid of it after more than a decade smoking habit. My brother started to smoke at high school and seems to get heavier in the university. They are just addicted to it. Most of the workers here in the factory are not older than 20 years old. Of course, my working place is not a black workshop, hiring minors to save the cost. Most of the young teenagers here have not graduated from technical college yet. Normally they start intern in the factory at the start of the third semester. Most of them are 18, 19 years old. However, three second of the pupils smoke and a great part of them has two to three years’ smoking age.

Maybe we think it is nothing new to see a young teenager smoking at the street any longer. We are used to it. More and more teenagers become the victims of nicotine and cancer causing toxins at a young age. The report of increased death of lung cancer cannot make a difference for them as well.

As the no smokers, we cannot avoid the effect of second hand smoke in the public but we can make the house much healthier, for the safety of our kids and ourselves as well.

Today I read news from the newspaper that in 2008, the figure of people not be harmed by smoke and second hand smoke is only 5.4% globally. Before you find any signal of your kids smoking, tell them and let them know deeply about the harm of smoking. Help you kids set up the right view of smoking at a young age. Smoking is not just cool as it seems on the face. On the other hand, make sure that your house should never be a place that allows smoking for everyone.

When I was a teenager, I was mad about those sweet and sour soft drinks and sweet ice cream. And my brother always has sweet drinks instead of plain water all day long. These colorful drinks and milky aroma pull your nerve tightly and it is really hard to deny it, especially for kids and teenagers. Kids don’t like plain water, which is the most useful ingredient of our body and most easily absorbed substance by our body. The importance of water may be not thoroughly realized by us. A lot of illness is resulted from inadequate water we have. Somebody will say that he feel nothing uncomfortable of his body even though a lot of soft drinks poured into the stomach. How to explain it?

From my point of view, water, especially plain water, is the most important medium for the chemical reaction in the cell. It enhances the good circulation of blood, transportation of waste and urination. However, most of the soft drinks in the market today are added by industry additives. Our kids’ attention is all drew on those delicious and good looking drinks with beautiful wrappers around and cool movie star printed on the bottle. The next step is trying to let your kids have more plain water. From now on, tell kids as much as you can that if you want to be pretty, drink water. If you want to be healthy, drink water. If you want to be slim, still drink water. Parents should be kids’ example at the same time.