Teenage Smoking

Ask any smoker when they started to smoke cigarettes and majority will say that they started to smoke when they were teenagers. Teenage smoking will most definitely continue in to adulthood if not tackled during the teenage years. When teenage smoking is continued in to adulthood, say from 16 years to 20 years, it becomes very difficult for the smoker to stop smoking. So the road to cigarette smoking normally starts in the teenage age years, when one should be exploring life, studying, making friends, playing videos games, participating in sports, and many other beautiful things teenagers do, but unfortunately might end in dying from lung or other cigarette smoking related cancers.

Why Teenage Smoking Starts

So why does teenage smoking start? Teenagers smoke cigarettes for the same reasons adults do. The fact is adults smoke because they started smoking as teenagers, well around about 90% of adults started to smoke when they were teenagers. The only main reason why adult smoke cigarettes now because they are addictive to the nicotine that is found in tobacco.

There are different reasons why teenagers start smoking cigarettes. Some teenagers might smoke cigarettes because they want to feel special or extra ordinary, because they are doing something dangerous and forbidden, and thus other teenagers will look up to them.

For some teenagers smoking is just a socializing event i.e. to fit or excepted in a group, in another words, peer pressure. Teenagers are very vulnerable and easily influenced at this particular stage of their lives, so if they have to smoke a cigarette to look older or wiser they will. Especial if they feel that smoking a cigarette will impress someone they have a high regard for, than they will smoke. I remember this is one and only reason why i started to smoke, to impress someone.

This may come to you as a surprise, but if you smoke your teenage child will most likely to smoke as well. In fact there is a 25% chance your child smoking, if you smoke. There is a 75% chance of your child smoking if you AND your partner smokes. It is high time that you stop smoking especial if you have children. It is not that difficult as long as you keep trying to stop smoking, more easier it gets.

Teenagers might smoke cigarettes to look or feel cool, or whatever reason it may be, but teenagers have not consciously decided to smoke for the rest of their lives. Teenage smoking ends up teenagers being addicted to cigarettes because of nicotine found in tobacco. Nicotine is highly addictive substance and extremely poisonous. In fact if you inject pure nicotine in your veins it will kill you almost immediately. Teenagers need to be educated to the dangerous of smoking cigarettes. They need to know that, whatever reason they have for smoking, cigarette smoking will enslave them for the rest of their lives.