I started smoking at 15/16 to fit in with the crowd. Worst mistake ever. Im 21 now and can easily go through two 25g's a week. I spend about £15 a week on cigs. I have tried quitting many times, but i find it so hard. Im not one of these smokers who will smoke in your face at a bus stop or something, i will move away. Also if i see that one of my friends has started i usually take them off them, give them the money and leave. I dont want people to start as i have noticed health problems already.
I have never smoked in my life. I am currently 33 and never even tried it. It didn't seem 'cool' to me, or at least I didn't care to be 'cool'. Then I got older and found better ways to squander my paycheck 😀
I don't mind smokers, I understand that at some point some of my friends are going to start smoking but at a young age I will automatically despise you. There is no reason for it if I am honest and showing off in front of your mates is the worst excuse out there.
Never have. Never will.
I don't see how people begin to try it.
You know it's bad for you, addicting, and costs money.
So, why even try it? I can't stand people like that.
My grandmother smoked from the time she was 13 (maybe earlier than that), and she had cancer and respitory disease early a result. By forty her health was all messed up. I remember seeing her as a vibrant strong woman and over a short time she had numerous heart attacks, and surgeries related to the emphasize and cancers (caused by smoking) and her health degenerated. She fought to the end to quit, usually going back for just one smoke and that was what hooked her in again. If I despise smoking, it's not a judgmental or moral issue, (it's your body do with it what you want), it's just knowing that smoking not only killed her in the end (in her sixties) but caused her to be in such pain for twenty years before she finally died is what makes me sad. :/
I can never get my grandmother back. I blame cigarettes.
I do not recommend smoking, not at a young age , nor later. I started smoking when I was 15. Now I'm 21 and I've quitted smoking for 1 month. It was very hard, I still feel the urge to smoke, but I realised I've been destroying my own health .
I had a bunch of kids come up to me on holiday and ask for a lighter, a terrifying experience if you ask me. They couldn't have been older than 13 or 14, I don't think. It is definitely something that I am against, especially seeing people do it so young. It is their own life and their own choices to make, however I feel most sorry for those engaging due to peer pressure.