Why do people do smoking, but it actually cause disease to the lungs and cause death?

Answer 1

Most people were exposed to it young, so they think it is normal and ok. A lot of people who do smoke were influenced by parents who smoke as well. People know the risks, but they are addicted and can't quit. People that grew up in the 1950's-1970's didn't know at the time cigarettes were bad for them, but since then research has proven the effects of nicotine. However, most of those people have been smoking so long, it would be more of a shock to their body and respiratory system to quit, then to just keep smoking.

Answer 2

Some people started smoking way back before we knew how damaging it could be. Then it's hard to quit. What's amazing now is most everyone knows how harmful smoking can be but they still start doing it anyway! Young people think it's cool. Some newer smokers think they can quit real soon, "I'll just do it for a while." or they think if it's going to do damage it'll be years in the future. Those years come up way too quickly.
Something else that's so discouraging is go near any hospital and you'll see staff outside smoking when they've been treating patients all day for that same damaging habit.

Answer 3

People start it due to all sorts of reasons and then become addicted nicotine is a drug, a legal one but still a drug.

This summer my Mother was dying of cancer (she never smoked, she had bladder cancer) in the hospice room next to hers when we first got there was a man dying of lung cancer. It was horrible how much noise he made struggling to breathe. His sister and wife stayed with him the entire time, they would go out and take smoke breaks! I can not imagine stronger compelling evidence to quit than watching a love one in that much pain and dying. The nurses had to tell them they could not smoke in the courtyard area. Even after he died they were out there trying to smoke in the common courtyard...

Answer 4

It's called nicotene addiction and it's worse than cocaine addiction when it comes to quitting. Yes, people know the dangers. How could they not, when it is blasted at them from every corner of the globe?

Instead of spending millions on advertising the dangers, how about giving those who want to quit FREE patches, gums, etc.? We have free methadone clinics for heroine addicts, so why not free patch clinics for nicotine addicts?

Help people quit, instead of harping and harping, which makes some folks very defensive in the long run and less likely to attempt the big quit.

Answer 5

I've been an ex-smoker for 8 years, I quit for logical reasons like,"why am I doing something that hurts me".

Some people like to smoke, they know the dangers and have no plan to ever quit.

If these people want to drive nails into their coffins FINE. That's the freedom I defend

Answer 6

They are addicted to the nicotine and it's one of the worst addictions there is. I've been off cigarettes for over 5 years now but it took a coma to get me off the stupid things.
I started back when everyone thought it was a cool thing to do. Back in the 50's.

Answer 7

The tobacco companies use extreme advertising methods to make impressionable kids feel that smoking is still 'cool' and 'adult'. They may have been restricted from TV and magazine ads, but they still control the movies, and every entertainer that is seen smoking only adds to the problem.

Answer 8

some people are very addicted to the nicotene found in cigeretts. some people start smoking at a young age from peer pressure and don,t realize the addiction that comes from smoking.

Answer 9

cigarette smoking is highly addictive, and once started, like any addiction, its very hard to quit. My father quit smoking at a young age and he says he still has urges to smoke, which was 30 years ago.

Answer 10

I started back in the 40's, In the late 50's they claimed it was bad for you, In the 90's they finally had some stuff to help you quit. 50 year habits are not easy to dump