Hey guys, wanna be a cool and popular kid in your school or college then start smoking my friends!”

This trend is gaining a lot more popularity. Students nowadays are beginning to think that smoking in front of their friends makes them cool. If it were so then everyone would go wild just smoking. The one thing that I don’t understand is, though students know the consequences of smoking then why in the world do they smoke. The reason behind this is to be cool. Smoking makes them cool is what they think, but they don’t think twice about what is actually happening to them. Smoking acts like a slow poison, it doesn’t kill you instantly but snatches away every single breath of yours until you breathe your last one. The number of juvenile smokers is increasing day by day and this should be a major concern for everyone. So, this matter must be taken seriously by teachers, guardians and government as well. A piece of advice for smokers: don’t waste your life in ashes, there are other ways of being cool.

— Sulav Pyakurel,

Class X , VS Niketan Higher Secondary School