Why do people smoke?

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Why do people START smoking?

  • It makes them feel cool

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • To relieve their stress

    Votes: 3 27.3%
  • Curiousy

    Votes: 2 18.2%
  • Peer pressure

    Votes: 3 27.3%

  • Total voters
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HhhLGA89

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I guess this isn't a post most Christians will really understand ( even though I have seen MANY Christians who smoke). The thought came to me as I was driving home and saw this guy with his arm hanging out the window, smoking a cigarette in has car with dark shades and a black biker jacket on, idk.. he seemed pretty "cool" to me..
 

lil_christian

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That is slightly hard...I don't know why people do it...because it harms their lungs so badly...from smoke inhalation, and it just totally damaging your lungs from the tar, the chemicals, and just everything that's put in those cigars.
 
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Helloimandrewyo

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Are we talking about tobacco?
 
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Initially, it can be traced back to social pressure that ignites one's curiosity.
 
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HhhLGA89

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That is slightly hard...I don't know why people do it...because it harms their lungs so badly...from smoke inhalation, and it just totally damaging your lungs from the tar, the chemicals, and just everything that's put in those cigars.
Yeah thats exactly what I was thinking..why would anyone feel like they need to start smoking knowing the results. I used to smoke before I got saved and I guess my thought was who cares I'm going to die from a car accident or something waayy before I die from lung cancer anyways...

Are we talking about tobacco?
Cigarettes is what I was talking about, but I guess you can have the same argument about weed or whatever.

Initially, it can be traced back to social pressure that ignites one's curiosity.
Yeah I see that for some, but I don't see how childlike curiosity can makeup for the fact you know your doing something so damaging! It HAS to be the peer pressure...then again I have done allot of stupid things in the name of curiosity..I guess people don't really care about the effects of there actions till they're actually faced with it. We just want the NOW satisfaction.
 
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All the smokers I know told me they started to relieve stress. I doubt very many use the "to look cool" excuse if ever.
 
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ib4gzus

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stupidity.
 
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In the beginning they do it because they think its cool. I don't think there are any adults who started smoking when they were already past their early 20's because its just nasty the first time you try it. They continue to smoke because it is chemically addictive. Their bodies build a craving and dependence on the nicotine, as well as a psychological dependency on the feeling of a cigarette in their mouth. That is why its so hard to quit.
 
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jimmydiggs

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#9
Depravity and mans fallennes.
 
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dominicanbeauty

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Most People at my old school smoked because they wanted to look cool but the real reason people smoke is

because the nicotine in cigarettes are addicting my uncle started smoking when he was 18 but now he is 39 n he

still smokes he says when he doesn't smoke he feels like he is going to loose his mind all he sees is cigarettes

that is why there is a nicotine patch now to stop the craving of nicotine sadly my uncle doesn't even take the

patches n he has developed a lump like this on his throat from the cigarette's but he still smokes :(
 

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luvmyjesus

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Could it be as simple as a form of rebellion. Lets face it society and companies promote it as being cool, tough, and Ok. Remembering there are thousands of people in companies and governments making a fortune off selling the stuff. Do they really care what effect it ultimately has, as long as they make their money and grow their incomes each year.
 
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Be_Evergreen

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^ I agree with the rebellious nature of it, especially with the younger generations!

With my mother, she started off doing it because it was "in" and supposedly "We didn't know it was bad back then". Years later, after she had quite for maybe a decade, my father, her ex died and around the same time her best friend died, both of cancer. The stress got to her, and she took a pack of cigarettes that her best friend had given her on vacation and started smoking again. Now, she knows it's bad, she just can't quit.

I hate smoke- the smell of it, the medical implications of smoking (why try and welcome in toxins and cell mutations?). A guy in my neighborhood was walking with me one day, saying hi and he was so attractive- UNTIL he raised a cigarette to his lips and lit up right next to me and my dog. I'm one that is all for banning smoking in public places as well.

Walking around my college campus (mostly nursing majors, ironically), it's like walking through a haze.
 
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Maddog

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For me it was simple curiosity after being force fed anti-smoking propaganda at school. And do you know what? Much of what I was taught about smoking and smokers was dispelled when I tried my first cigar. I had been taught that smokers were 'stupid' or 'addicts' or just trying to be 'cool', but I discovered that actually, people smoke because it's enjoyable. Looking back, and I'm seriously not being facetious, taking up smoking was one of the best decisions of my life - the lessons it has taught me and the type of person it has made me, not to mention the friends, job opportunities and simple pleasure it has brought me - I can't imagine where I'd be without tobacco.
 
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HhhLGA89

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Vikki I honestly don’t think that out of everyone who smokes NONE have done it to look cool. Honestly I'm sure those who(or have) smoked would be too embarrassed to say they did it to look cool -that makes them feel very UNcool..My thought is it’s only stupid if they complain about the effects after they knew what would happen; if they did it knowing the side effects of smoking and didn't care, I wouldn't call them stupid but careless. Zero and Evergreen I know what you mean, that's the reason why allot of people are addicted to crack now, it was cool when it first came out (crack cocaine), but now that we know the side effects it is TOTALLY uncool. I would agree that it goes back to depravity which brings rebellion, probably not on the part of the smoker...I couldn't imagine them all knowing God was opposed to it (like I said I've seen allot of Christians who smoke even), but maybe on the part of the companies who know they are killing people but don’t care because they are making a quick buck. Dominican I would pray and plead with your uncle to stop, he looks pretty young and I'm sure that cigarettes will be the death of him if he doesn’t quit..Kinda shows how addictive it can be when you won’t even stop with a lump coming out of your neck..Yeah..the reason I stopped was because that nasty nicotine smell sticks to you and your clothes like glue. I didn't smoke cigarettes for that long though.
 
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rainacorn

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I started as a kid because I was curious.

My parents told me all sorts of lies about what was safe and what was dangerous, so I thought I would be tough stuff and test some boundaries and tried smoking when I was about 15.

I fell into a crowd of other boundary-testing kids and suddenly I was in a clique. The only requirement, it seemed, was to keep smoking. Eventually it was just an addiction, both to the feeling of belonging and to the cigarettes themselves.
 
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Vikki I honestly don’t think that out of everyone who smokes NONE have done it to look cool.
That's not what I said. Read what I posted again. I said I doubt that very many use that excuse if ever.
 
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StMichaelTheArchangel

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People generally smoke for the same reasons why they do drugs or alcohol, because they want to find some kind of fulfillment in life. Cigarettes are a drug, they produce a high and euphoria like any other drug. That is why people do them, the high feels good, they want to be high but without God. They are for people who are enslaved to material things above spiritual things, for people who take pleasure in fleshly passions and are addicted to them.
 
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Helloimandrewyo

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i started because i was bored, and figured why not. Now it helps with stress, but i don't smoke as much.

Never was an appearence thing.
 
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NodMyHeadLikeYeah

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#20
Growing up almost every single person in my family smoked, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, cousins my parents. My nana started giving me cigerattes when i was 14, I smoked from the time i was 14 until i was 23.

For me it just seemed like a natural thing to do
it had nothing to do with looking cool, or peer pressure.

In my family two things were certain, you smoked and you played Canasta (a card game) And thats just how it was.