by Sabrina F. Hall

About the author: Sabrina F. Hall is a teenager who is a self-described smoking addict.

Ithink cigarette smoking is highly addictive and very expensive. Especially when you’re thirteen and get $8 allowance. Right now I’m going to ninth grade and started smoking in sixth. The first cigarette I ever had was in fifth grade. My mom was walking our dogs and found an unopened pack. She brought the cigarettes home and put them by the garden to use as insecticide—a friend in Hawaii had told her that tobacco stops ants from attacking plants.

The First Cigarette

Of course, when I found the pack, I picked them up, being the little rebel I was and, I suppose, still am. I took them to my...