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