why do people start smoking?

Question

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Answer 1

People start smoking because they probably tried it at as a pre-teen or early teen and did it for the cool factor. Most people start that way, some end up quitting, but some go back as a way to relax and during high stress times. It is a common misconception that cigarettes calm nerves so people will smoke for that reason and end up in the clutches of nicotine and its addictiveness. Some people are more vulnureable than others to the addiction of nicotine. I have smoked before but never gotten the urge to smoke as if it was controlling me like some folks. Hope I helped.

Answer 2

As an ex smoker I can tell you why I started smoking. When I was a kid, both of my parents smoked so it seemed a very natural thing to do. Also, when a lot of my friends (around the age of 12/13) started doing it, it just seemed very cool to me. I felt very grown since the only people I had ever seen smoke were adults. Of course I didn't smoke then because it made me feel good or it was a delicious habit mind you, simply for the cool factor. But by the time it started being a pain (having to have money to buy them, having to walk around smelling like a big cigarette all the time) it was too late to stop, somewhere between being "cool" and growing up, my body started needing it. As easy as it was to start, it was so, UNBELIEVABLY hard to stop.

Answer 3

Most people start smoking when they are very young and peer pressure has real impact. They smoke because the people that they want to be with smoke. It is very rare for someone over the age of twenty to start if they never have before. I know one reason I started (I have long since quit) was because I just didn't understand what the attraction was. Both my parents smoked. I watched a lot of old movies where everyone smoked. The cool kids smoked. So I just had to try it to see what the big deal was all about. It didn't matter that my grandfather had died of emphysema. When you are young you just don't make logical connections.

Answer 4

I did to look and be cool, and its many years later, after trying everything cannot quit, but back when I grew up it was ok to smoke, there we no warnings to tell you otherwise, people on tv smoked and you could even smoke say if you were in the hospital in your bed, all the people you admired smoked.......I wish they had the warnings they have now when I was growing up, I would never have touched tobacco let alone smoke it. I look at the young people smoking now and feel so sorry for them knowing in about 20 years they will have so many health problem, or walking around with a oxygen tank or dead.

Answer 5

People tend to start smoking when they reach a temperature of around 350 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it is extremely difficult to create these conditions in nature and must be accomplished with several aids, including several 30-weight ball bearings, a roll of high-quality aluminum foil and a tub of butter. Simply slather your entire body in butter, stick the 30-weight ball bearings up your butt, spread out a generous sheet of aluminum foil under the midday sun and lie directly on top of the foil. Within an hour or so, you should start to see significant smoke. Hope that helps!

Answer 6

Peer pressure is the #1 reason people start at such a young age. Other kids see older kids and adults do it so they think that it is cool and fun, but what they don't realize is how much damage they are doing to their bodies and lungs. And before they know it they are hooked.

Advertisement is another big factor. Everywhere you look you see cool ads that show beautiful women, hot cars, and people having fun with a cigarette hanging from their lips.

We are all influenced at a very young age by everyone around us and it is a never ending cycle as the years go on through the generations.

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Answer 7

It's a weakness played on by the tobacco companies and the government. Look at the amount of tax dollars that are put on top of a pack of smokes. It's also that people find it glamorous at a young age. Maybe children who have been exposed to 2nd hand smoke for so many years, find themselves craving it once they leave home. Because they too are addicted to the chemicals and the nicotine. The level of chemicals and nicotine are controlled by our federal government. It's just another form of mind control. Myself, I never started smoking until I was 27. It was after I worked in a small grocery store where part of my job was to stock the cigarettes. The smell of the tobacco when it comes straight out of the box of cartons, is alluring. I quit when I got to over a pack a day. Cold turkey. No patches or anything. Smokers are weak minded. That's why they start and find reasons not to quit.

Answer 8

sometimes under peer presure and others as a dare and some just to see what its like and then again once started ou have to have a good motive to stop like having a kid or something like that

Answer 9

This is because of peer pressure which happens everyday. It's because you feel out of the group and it makes you wonder what is the pleasure of this. And it might seem to be very cool. Which is not.

Answer 10

Different reasons.....
Years ago it was considered not normal if you didn't smoke and today it's the opposite. I started in the 70's in High School because back then you were considered a nerd and an outcast if you didn't. Today you're frowned upon.