why do so many people smoke when they know it kills?

Question

especially in israel!

Answer 1

yea
You ask a rebbe over there, why he does if it's an act of self harm... and he replies.."It's just a bad habit that helps me deal with all the stress." Ask a soldier over there why, and he, or she says, "Well, we all have to die sometime anyway, eh?" It is a VERY high stress environment with a cultural equivilant of the U.S. in the sixties and seventies. Smokes are cheap and plentifull and allowed everywhere. It will be a while before this changes...if ever!

Answer 2

Lack of self control, or self-respect.
So many start so young to be cool then the effects of addiction are sooo hard to brake.
Wanting immediate satisfaction vs. long term stability

Smoking is an ugly thing, it really does take over your entire body when it craves it so badly... The last time I saw my grand-dad alive, he was in the smokers wing at the hospital (back when they had smokers corners) smoking, the next time I saw him, he was being pulled out of the fridge systems in the morgue, his skin was purple and yellow from the nicotine trying to leave his pores as he laid there still and lifeless.

Answer 3

People continue to smoke despite 25 years or more of warnings from the Surgeon General of the US, educational ads on television, educational non-smoking programs at schools, massively increased taxes on cigarettes, etc. They continue to do so because they are naive and believe that "nothing will happen to me" or "I won't become addicted". Of course, later in life when they get ill with emphysema, cancer, congestive heart disease, or numerous other illnesses...then they expect all of the rest of us to 1)feel sorry for them and 2)pay for their health care.

Answer 4

I don't know. My dad has been a smoker for about 20 years now and you can definately see the affects. He is in his mid-40's and looks like he is in his 60's!!
I am in my twenty's, and a girlfriend of mine is 24....she has been smoking since high school and she is now trying to get rid of her wrinkles...WRINKLES!! Wow! I hope that i don't have to deal with that until I am in my 30's.

It's known that it kills...the only thing I can thing is that these people are ignorant in that way.

Answer 5

all this smoking will catch up but some people just don't give a
$*^%. the new car smell causes cancer. if i offered you a new
BMW would you take it? It shouldn't matter let people do what they want. this is just flat out prejudice they make us sit in other parts of restaurants and now we cant even go in most restaurants what does this remind you of?

Answer 6

hahahaha because they are stressed out cigarretes helps them with stress. But also it is an addiction. People are addicted to the nicotine in the cigarretes, their bodies crave it and thats why they smoke so much.. Yeah israelies do smoke a lot!!!!

Answer 7

It's a drug. Being 10 years cigarette-free, I can tell you that you can very quickly go from a social smoker to a full-on pack-a-day smoker and then have a hell of a time quitting. I wish they'd just stop manufacturing them.

Answer 8

here is what i have observed, as a smoker they say that smoking causes lung cancer , well my response is that there are ppl that has never smoked that got lung cancer,so how do they really know , the answer is they don't so i don't believe it does, everybody has to die someday whether u die of a heart attack, stroke, car crash or any other way, its going to happen , i could quit smoking now and get hit by a car tomorrow, so then it didn't save my life to quit, get my point!!!!!

Answer 9

In short. Their desire and addiction is greater than long-term self-preservation. Living in the present rather than looking towards the future.

Answer 10

Because they don't really believe it will kill them when they start smoking, and it is addictive and by the time they believe it then they can't stop.