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Question: Why do teenagers start smoking?

Asked by corella (33 points) on Aug 24, 2009  under Society and Culture 1 answers

Why do teenagers start smoking?


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franni (39 points)

on Aug 24, 2009

Almost all people are aware that how bad smoking is for health. And how badly it affects ones life. But nowadays smoking is a part of everyday life. There are around one thousand million people around the world who do smoking. The trend of smoking in teenager is also increasing at very high rate. Majority people get in habit of smoking at very early age or mid age. At that stage they are unable to realize the damage it causes to their health. At early stage of smoking people commonly think that they will smoke for few days just for enjoyment and then they will leave it. But the reality is that it is very difficult to do so. Cigarettes have nicotine in it. As the person does smoking he gets addict to it soon. And then it becomes difficult for then to quit smoking.



There are many reasons for early age smoking. Many teenager start smoking because their friends or group fellow smoke. Other may get addict to smoking because they grow up in environment where their parents, grand parents and old siblings smoke. So just to look like them and act like them they start smoking. Much teenager starts smoking as an act of rebellion against their parents. Some of them start smoking to cover their shyness and get attention. If teenager has low self esteem they start smoking to get in crowd and make friends. Because they think if they do so they will be accepted by their peers. Research has showed that some teenager smokes just to show that they are grown up. Some of them start smoking just for the sake of fun. In some countries smoking is prohibited until 16 and 18.So the teenagers give it try just to feel the thrill and excitement of breaking law. It is proved that whatever is the reason for teenager smoking; no matter how much efforts are made to make them understand about its harmfulness. Still large number of them gives it a try. Because at that age they have more fun and satisfaction trying to do what their age fellows do rather than listening to their parents. There are cases in which teenager start smoking because their favorite film start or singers do so. The ways in which some tobacco companies advertise their brands on media also affect young people.


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