Start Smoking Today! (why people do)
Do you remember the time when tobacco companies advertised cigarettes as being good for you? using images such as “The Marlboro Guy” and hook lines such as “You’re never alone with a Strand” they portrayed smoking with a positive spin promoting smoking as being both socially acceptable as part of a healthy outdoor lifestyle! Thankfully times have changed and society has moved on and those types of promotions are simply not acceptable any more, in fact in some countries it is illegal to advertise tobacco products at all. Smoking used to be seen as “cool”, but, now everyone is very aware, perhaps more than ever, of the numerous diseases and health problems that have been scientifically connected with tobacco. At last smoking is being publicly recognized as more than just a “bad habit” but one that is increasingly socially unacceptable with more and more government’s actually banning smoking in public. But why, considering the amount of bad press smoking gets do countless people decide to ignore all the information out there and take up smoking for the first time? Will the next one be your, a loved one or a close friend?
Some of the reasons people cite for smoking:
It Relieves Stress - Smoking has always been associated with stress relief. So, if you ever feel that your life is overburdened with worry, stress or anxiety, maybe you’ll also feel that opening a fresh pack of cigarettes and smoking one will somehow make dealing with your problems easier. This seems to be a factor not only in people’s reason for smoking but even why they start smoking in the first place. In reality smoking does not and can not relieve your stress or anxiety it merely serves as a temporary boost to your moral due to the effects of nicotine in your bloodstream
“My Wife/Husband Smokes” - One other common excuse people give for smoking is that the people they go out with date or socialize with smoke they just pick up the habit as a young adult. Even the non-smoking partner of a smoker often “tries it out” and then moves on to become an “occasional smoker”, and more often than not becomes addicted to nicotine. Other times young adults take up smoking simply due to their belief that smoking in a social environment is an aid to conversation.
Peer Pressure - Children and teenagers smoking is a huge problem and it’s widely recognized that it is the force of peer pressure that pushes many teenagers to ignite their first cigarette. Despite all the health education teenagers still feel that if they smoke then their classmates will consider them to be “cool” and perhaps it’s also seen as one of the steps towards adulthood “grown-ups Smoke… As a Parent there is little you can do to guarantee that your child won’t at least experiment with smoking but you can at least go some way towards preventing your children smoking by talking to them openly, telling them the known side effects of tobacco and highlighting the problems they are almost certain to face in later life if they smoke.
None of the reasons above for starting smoking have any real merit at all. Does anyone really believe that having teeth yellowed by years of nicotine intake can be “cool” or that having two fingers of one hand tinted permanent dark iodine yellow from perpetually holding a cigarette is attractive? Regardless of this for whatever reason countless people decide every day to start smoking. Will you or someone close to you be one of these?
Before you start you should consider that if you never start smoking you will never end up having to fight the addiction it brings or end up spending 1000’s of hard earned dollars on a life threatening habit.
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