Smoking has several ill effects. These have taken center stage all over the world. Why do you smoke when it is obviously harmful for you? That is a question that all smokers most likely ask themselves, for which unfortunately their answers more often than not, justify their habit.
I guess you smoke because you believe smoking makes you act, look, and/or feel different, but the truth is that smoking is a learned habit. For instance, women who work see other women who smoke and imitate them, unlike housewives who are at home. Children from homes where the parents and siblings are smokers learn the habit easier than children in whose homes no one smokes, and people who live with fellow smokers don¡¯t quit smoking easily.
Many smokers learned the habit from admiring advertising techniques and consequently begin to smoke. Cigarette companies say they do not target young kids, but that is falsehood, do you see billboards with normal, middle aged person smoking? Do they advertise people with stained teeth and haggard faces, - the direct results of smoking? Of course they don't.
The harm smoking does to life is known to all including teenagers. They already know its bad for them; but peer influence plays an important role in smoking. Teenagers who have close friends who smoke easily become smokers themselves. Most teenager's have the impression that smoking helps them make friends, makes them more desirable. Children who grow up with smokers take up the habit more easily than those who grow up in smoke-free homes.
The Health Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed the foregoing as a fact. Peer pressure is a major influence on the smoking habits of teenagers in our society. Young adults who have friends who take up the habit tend to start themselves. You can quit smoking today to save young children from smoking. Thank you for taking this very important decision for the good of all children.
