why do people still start smoking ? despite health warnings and anti social message i dont get it!?

Answer 1

Perplexing isn't??, also why did the first ever person to smoke tobacco do it?, its the most unnatural thing to do to want to inhale smoke, have you ever heard of "Bob Neward", he does this really funny sketch about Sir Walter Raleigh bringing back Tobacco leaves and trying to convince the Queen that they are a good idea!!, a real hard sell.....

Answer 2

I do not smoke, although my husband has since he was 15. My only concern is for his health, which he has developed a deep cough in the last 6 mo and refuses to see a doctor. It scares me. I'm sure smokers are being targeted do to the 'unpopular' vice. I suppose the idiom, by Ben Franklin applies. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Smoking is not the only thing people are destroying their bodies with. I don't consider smoker's evil. I do believe there are health issues to consider. In my opinion, I believe when a person at their own choice consumes anything in to their body that is harmful, it does not only affect that person, but their loved ones. The addiction is so strong, they choose to live a toxic addictive lifestyle rather than care to live healthy with their their loved ones. They choose their vice over how they care for themselves and their family when it comes down to it. I look back and remember how my one brother and I detested cig smoke growing up. We lived in a house where both parents smoked, and another brother began at 16. When you do not have a choice but have to live and breath in a home as such, it is really sad, for those that don't have a voice, the children. How can anything that is toxic to our system be considered a good thing? A person does not have to smoke, drink alcohol, or take illegal drugs, and abuse prescription drugs as well. Those that smoke, drink and take drugs are searching for a euphoria they get from their vices, which is sad, when they cannot get high on life, naturally.

Answer 3

Lots of reasons I'd imagine. Most smokers start when they're young teenagers and of an age where they believe they're indestructible and yearning to be more grown up. Some start smoking to fit in with their "cool" friends or through peer pressure, others to rebel, others so that they'll look all grown up and sophisticated. There's a misconception amongst girls in particular that if they smoke, they'll stay thin. Above all, I think it's the whiff of cordite about the whole thing that makes them do it.

I was amazed when a couple of my cousins started smoking despite our grandmother suffering greatly from smoking

Answer 4

Because they can! But for how much longer? Britain is losing it's FREEDOM. Seat Belts, began the encroachment. My very first smash, 42 years ago, would have resulted in my death if I had been wearing a seat belt. Smoking to be banned in public places.Where is the freedom in that? Would it not have been better to say, depending upon licensee etc, this is a no smoking pub and this is a smoking pub. If you work in a smoking pub, you must be a smoker. I smoke one cigar a night if I go out for a drink. I went to one pub in a village greeted with "we don't sell cigarettes, cigars or tobacco related products" I told them I didn't want the pintI or meal that I had ordered . Went to the next village, had a cigar and a very nice meal in very convivial company. Guess which one was packed out and which one was empty?

Answer 5

Smoking is a drug, when a person gives up the body craves for it until the person will give in.
Smoking is like food to the body, and the more you feed it with cigarettes the more it will love them, but people who relate to going back to smoking are very weak if a little smoke can rule there lives then i feel sorry for them. when i see smokers standing there puffing that cigarette, i wonder if they know how daft they look.

Answer 6

They start young, as impressionable teens - peer pressure. Any thought of health to them is as relevant as tax invoices.

They carry on because they develop a physical and a mental addiction, whatever that means, not sure I do. Apparently it's the mental addiction which is the hard bit to break.

Answer 7

Some people smoke because of their nerves, just as my mother did after WWII. she died aged 63 of emphysemia, enlarged heart etc. all the things the expert doom-mongers warn you about, but up till the last day she smoked!! I understand why but I don't smoke because of her futile death. I always tell kids about her when I see them smoking. If one of them stops then I will be happy. Is it because the govt gets tax money from it?

Answer 8

being a smoker myself you could put a skull and cross bones on the pack and we'd still buy them. although i'm not sure whether it's a habit, albeit a bad one more than an addiction. i wish i took notice of all the health warnings. and being quite fit and active it's a habit i could do well without. plus the expense.

Answer 9

Experience. Peer Pressure. Copy their parents. Advertisement.

Answer 10

Compulsion, addiction, peer pressure and advertising all play their dastardly parts in the smoking psycho-drama.