It is so easy not to start smoking or drinking, so why do so many people do it?
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It's easy to start, hard to stop, and some people think its cool so they do it to try and impress them to be cool too. So, its generally peer pressure that starts it and then that person finds out the benefits and ignores the long term damages, and keeps doing alcohol or drugs or whichever, until they are so addicted its almost impossible to stop before they die. Thats why when they go through a serious condition (heart attack) and are hospitilized, then told they have to stop its much more likely that they will rather than stopping on their own.
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Hi Rani, \n I think your onto a whole new concept of exercise. I've got to believe that there are millions of people who smoke and don't get the exercise they truly need. While we're at it let's get all those other people who drink and do drugs. Just think about it for a second, we can have A Boston Marathon with runners who have in one hand a cigarette, in the other a cocktail to wash down that ecstasy. What a concept Rani, you da man.
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some people feel the need to make thier problems go away by not facing them. The only problem is they dont relize once the drugs have wore off the problem is still there but worse, so they do more drugs. And some people just like the energy some drugs can give them and the feeling of having control of there life (even though they obviously dont have control...the drugs do. And the amazing feeling you can get after smoking a big fat one.
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I have not smoked pot in over 18 years but even then I only did once in a while with friends. I will say that I'm not sorry I did and I might some day in the future but never on a regular bases.\n\nI find the people who are pot head (smoke pot way to much) would have pretty much become something else just as wasteful without the pot.  So the problem is not the pot it's the people themselves.\n\nAnd I have know many casual users that have never ever gotton into harder drugs.  \n\nI have known more people who have destroyed there lives and bodies with tobacco and alcohol.
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I think because a "social smoker" is not addicted to the nicotine and just smokes while partying, and can allegedly stop smoking at any time.\n\nA "smoker" has a physical addiction to nicotine, thus makeing it very difficult to quit.
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I am a smoker, here are my reasons.  I smoke so I don't kill people.  It give my hands something to do. It is so relaxing and decreases stress.  AND Damn it!  I just like it!! :o)
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There are a whole bunch of laws that are set by people who don't partake of the activity they wish to regulate.\n\nGet used to the no smoking thing. It's everywhere.
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Because they are just inconsiderate and lazy.\n\nI laugh at the ones that try to excuse themselves by bringing up the exhaust from cars:\n\n1) Many people NEED their cars to get to and from work (I know where I live using public transportation to get from my house to my job is impossible) whereas smoking is not NEEDED to get to and from work, actually it is not NEEDED at all, except by those to weak to cope with day-to-day life without a crutch\n\n2) Do these smokers that make that comparison NOT have cars?  Do they walk everywhere?
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It is ridiculous and it is also caused by peer pressure. Also, an adult in the house or someone you know that smokes. \n\nI was 11 years old when I tried my first cig which I stole from my mother. I didn't start smoking regularly till I was about 14 or 15. \n\nI am now 29 years old and have been smoke-free for going on 3 years... It wasn't easy.. And yes, that was the most stupid thing I had ever done - smoking in the first place.
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Nicotine just like alcohol is a drug, a very powerful addicting drug.  It's the addictive powers that keep smokers smoking.  For some people, they feel calmer when they smoke, more relaxed.  For some people, they do it to lose weight, others may do it to be cool.  Others do it because they were bullied into it and others do it because they enjoy smoking.  But the bottom line for all these excuses is they are all addicted to nicotine.\n\nDepending on the willingness of the smoker actually determines if they quit for good or not.  If a smoker is determined to quit for good there are lots of things that person(s) can try with success.  From hypnotherapy to a patch.  But not only is it the willingness to quit important but their belief if the products would work or not for them.  Smokers must look at the possibilities and be more up beat about their process and their future and have a positive attitude as well.  If the smoker says "oh that won't work for me!"  then he or she just sealed his fate by being pessimistic/negative already without even trying the product(s).\n\nSo in essense it isn't that it is hard to invent medications that block the receptors, the problem usually comes from the individual(s) willingness and their belief in themselves to quit.\n\nI hope I was helpful to you!  Have a great evening!
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Because it relaxes them. It's like the effect of drinking but without a hangover.
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alcohol is a personal decision+effect and smoking affects more the enviroment than the smoker+can corrupe by this way others to start smoking.
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because its hard work. After a stressful day at work, fighting traffic and putting  kids to bed..the last thing one wants to do is go workout less alone eat a salad.\n\nWe care abt our bodies and health..sometimes too much....the problem here is lack of motivation that most of the world suffers from not their desire to avoid healthy living.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but, you are asking non- smokers why they don't understand that we need to smoke? The smokers smoke to alleviate stress, the more stress... the more we smoke. There how's that?
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Most people do what they see other people do in TV or around them most don't think for themselves, they like to fallow the crowd and do like most other people do.\nIf they had a little visit tour at the hospital they could change their mind about smoking...\n\nIt's obvious that the cigarette can cause a lot a damage but being COOL is everything for those who don't have any principles in their life. \nAnd they can't seem to decide by them self wither it's good for them or not they always want the approval of the cool people or at least pretend to be like them
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I think that many people are finally getting the message. Cigarettes are very expensive and it's very hard to smoke in most places. The restaurants and bars in my county have forbidden it. Cig. smoking costs everyone money because of the costs of the illnesses they cause. Ins. rates go up for everyone to cover it.
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same reason why: \n smokers smoke\n drinkers drink\n gamblers gamble\n etc, etc, etc.....I could tell you alot more.\n \nThat is what they do. Everybody has thing that they do. It may not be healthy, but that is who they are. We all have little things that we do.