PLN Week3 Post5

Today I read an article called State Hits top 10 For Nonsmokers. This is about how when the state raised the tax of cigarettes the almost a dollar smoking dropped from 22% down to 18%. This is a huge drop and smoking of teenagers has dopped from 18% down to 15%. In this colorado dropped from 14th in the nation to 9th. It is said that smoking cost colorado 1.3billion dollars a year and kills 16000 people in just colorado. This matters because and a teen pure pressure will test me and I will havt to overcome it. This relates to the world because many people in the Us smoke and it is killing many people each year. This is why this article matters.