I understand why people started back in junior high and even high school, because at that age standing up against peer pressure is so difficult, and wanting to look cool and grown-up is a powerful thing to resist. I smoked in junior high for that very reason, but luckily it never took hold. But why do people in their 20s and 30s start? I think we have all been pretty well educated as to the health and social risks of smoking by now. Not to mention is really narrows down your dating pool. I won’t even consider dating a guy that smokes, and neither will a lot of other people I know. So why then, do people start smoking?

Stress.....

stress, relief, taste and you can meet cool kids who also smoke.

GILLAN FagFace™ wrote:
stress, relief, taste and you can meet cool kids who also smoke.

i wouldn’t call adults in 20’s and 30’s "cool kids".

To relieve stress.

helps depression

I smoked a little bit when I was a teen with my sister. For me I started because I wanted to bond with her and because at 15 I thought it was cool to be doing something bad that my parents didn’t know about. I quickly realized how unhealthy it is though. Having clothes that reek of cigarette smoke is nasty. I won’t even date a girl that is a smoker now.

well if it cures boardness then why dont ppl in stead of picking up tht cigarette to cure boardness....then go out side, visit family members, go to the movies.hang with friends i seen how if effect a realitive of mine so why start. i mean teens have peer pressurei even have it but if your doing it
"just to look cool" then its probly not the coolest thing to be doing

i tried smoking before and it was the worst thing ever i think that people try it cause they think it makes there life better when it dosnt

I’ve tried it before but didnt see the big deal.
I never saw the big deal in it and since when is it cool to get cancer and heart problems.

I’m a member of my school’s anti-smoking club here in New Mexico. It’s heart breaking to see how such young kids are becoming so dependant on this killer drug to neutralize stress. It’s a life destructing desicion. This movement personally means quite a bit to me, as I have lost a close aunt to COPD from smoking, and my father currently smokes about a pack a day. Middle and High school students think that they’re invincible, and this drug is a life destructing desicion, as I said. I see some friends of mine so addicted, that they’re leaving class to smoke these deadly chemicals. I’m very expert in the dangers and contents of tobacco, and very agaisnt it. I find myself very judgemental on smokers, which is where I need help, because these students aren’t bad people, they just make bad choices.

i started because i liked the feeling and from then on i got addicted.
now i smoke ebcause either i need it, im stressed, im mad, im upse, or im bored.
i wanna quit but all my friends smoke so it makes it hard.
if anyone wants to help me quit message me.

There are many reasons for why people smoke. If you are asking why older people in there 20s and 30s smoke, the most common reason I find is that it relieves stress and anxiety. My friends mother has anxiety disorder so she has little obessions and worries a lot, nothing big, but smoking is her one thing that she can controll and can calm her. Even if they know that its "wrong" or can kill them down the road, once they get addicted its hard to just stop. Usually they started smoking in there high school days. I know that it can be hard to understand because it seems like such an incredibly stupid habbit, but sometimes you won’t always understand things.

I am 53 and in my day it was made out to be a glamerous. All the most beautiful movie stars did it. We saw all of the adds for cigarettes and not one time did they say it was bad for you. So alot of kids smoked then. Whe I was in High School in Indianapolis they had a smoking place for the kids in an outside area that was just for the kids. I was told at 14 by one of my parents that if I was going to smoke to quit doing it behind their backs. So alot of us had permission from our parents and our schools. But a few years later after high school they all of a sudden said they were bad for you and started putting the warnings on the side of the package. By then most of us were hooked. I used to do some drugs back in my day but they were not that hard to quit. I have taken everything out there to quit. Even the latest prescription medicine, nothing has helped. Yes I want to quit more than anything expecially since I had lung cancer and had 1/2 of my lung removed and this last year had to have part of my kidney removed because of cancer. When you have smoked this long then it does help with stress and depression. But it is also the worse habit you can have. It has been proven that it is easier to quit drugs and alcohol than it is cigarettes. They are suppose to have so many chemicals in them now to keep you addicted. That is why most of my generation smokes. But why do kids today? With all the education on them they have and expecially how much they cost? I don’t understand that. So someone could help explain that one to me. Also if someone has any information besides the patches and drugs they have that don’t work on me and being hypnotized which I even tried that, I would love to hear from them.

smoking is smoking.
if you want to smoke, you want to smoke.
if you dont, you dont.
i dont see why if you want to smoke,
retards try to stop you.
its your decision.
so stop "anit-smokers".
its dumb and honestly, so you think they are going to
quit because they see a sign saying "dont smoke, join the movement"?

i started because i always say people do it when i was little, and i wanted to try, then when i was older my best friend did it so i just taged along.