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