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At the age of 14, I was adamantly against smoking. My father smoked and I thought it was disgusting. I remember always being upset that he would have enough money to buy cigarettes, but never enough to buy me the things I wanted or even needed, like new shoes. My sister and I continually hounded him to quit smoking, but he never did. I hated smoking by the time I hit my teenage years and swore I would never light a cigarette, even for a million dollars. Then, my friends came over one day and revealed to me that they had started smoking and what could I do?
In fifth grade we watched a video about a person who had lung cancer. They showed his lungs and told us how much he smoked. He had to talk through one of those voice box things that he held up to his neck and made him sound like a robot. It was not enough that I already hated my father for smoking all the time and throwing money away, but now I hated him for what he was doing to himself and our family. At that point I......

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