Tang Ling often smoked cigarettes(香烟) in his school’s washing room. He started smoking  the age of 14. One day he learnt that the NBA star Yao Ming, an ambassador(大使) to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (中国控烟协会), asked people not to smoke. Yao Ming was Tang’s favorite star,his words meant a lot to him. He decided toup smoking.
According to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, about 350 million Chinese smoke. Among, 50 million are teenagers. Sun Jiangping of Beijing University said, “ Teenagers can get cigarettes easily , especially when their parents smoke or shops sell cigarettes to them. It’s very importantparents to help their children stop smoking.”A 15-year-old boy named Li Kun from Beijing said his didn’t smoke. Because they thought smoking could make people feel badly ill, they only allowed him to play with friends without smoking. Living in such a good family helped Li say to cigarettes. Some of his smoking classmates once told Li that smoking made boys look, but Li disagreed. He said, “Smoking is unhealthy and it’s not cool at all. Please stop smoking now!”