Why would someone start smoking??

MojoMan220 · #1 10-28-2002, 11:47 AM

In my opinion it is just a stupid idea, unless you started smoking when there were no warnings or just a lack of information. I don't understand why a person would take the chance of ruining there life over a few puffs from a cigarette. Some smokers believe that it is okay to start smoking just to liven up your life and have some fun. Well those same smokers will most likely develop lung cancer and die from it... that's when the parties over. The truth is smoking will just slow you down and perhaps even isolate you from friends and family. I still find it funny that some smokers try to defend tobacco when on the inside they're regretting they even started. Why would a person start smoking with so many risks agains them??

TheKhanzumer · #2 10-28-2002, 11:57 AM

I think the answer to your question is a close tie between stupidity and insecurity.

Not that all smokers are dumb and have low self esteem. That is just usually how it starts. I know many smokers and it s true of almost all of them. They are nice people, but they need smoking to help them feel secure.

Jacob · #3 10-28-2002, 12:00 PM

I smoked 12 cigarettes in one night and even tried 3 cigars, that was out of curiosity and now im indifferent. If somebody wants to smoke, let them. Dont say stuff like "Your ruining your Lungs" etc. Cos theres no point. Most of it starts off as curiosity, the younger kids will smoke to look "cool" and "hard" but by year 10-11 they regret it and smell.
I have also tried Cannabis, which is very joyful and i encourage y'all to do so.
Contrary to what people believe, smoking doesn't seperate you from friends or family, if anything it actually helps you to bond and socialise with people who smoke also. Smokers arn't bad people.

MojoMan220 · #4 10-28-2002, 12:07 PM

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Originally posted by Jacob
I smoked 12 cigarettes in one night and even tried 3 cigars, that was out of curiosity and now im indifferent. If somebody wants to smoke, let them. Dont say stuff like "Your ruining your Lungs" etc. Cos theres no point. Most of it starts off as curiosity, the younger kids will smoke to look "cool" and "hard" but by year 10-11 they regret it and smell.
I have also tried Cannabis, which is very joyful and i encourage y'all to do so.
Contrary to what people believe, smoking doesn't seperate you from friends or family, if anything it actually helps you to bond and socialise with people who smoke also. Smokers arn't bad people.

I'm not saying smokers are bad people or that they should not smoke; It is there decision even if it isn't a smart one. I just want to know why they started in the first place. BTW, my dad smokes and he is an awesome person- I just wish he'd stop for his health.

paramiteabe · #5 10-28-2002, 12:21 PM

Another reason people choose to smoke is their way to releave them selves from stress. Eather from work or school or just haveing a bad day. Thats another reason why people would choose to smoke.

I don't smoke because I don't want to and I know where you are comming from MojoMan. people like to smoke because they feel it is a good way to releave stress but in reality it isn't. I see it every day at my work especally when I am on break. They are simply relaxing from stress. It's the persons choice on weather he or she wants to smoke and that is a good example of freedom. To do what ever pleases you. But why did they choose in the first place? Well I would imagine for them it is the best way to releave them selves.

It's a choice thing. And for me I choose not to. I am friends with people who smoke and they are just as good as us non smokers. But health wise then that would be the difference. Now I like to releave stress by drinking coffie a lot but that has it's problems as well. Hey we are all going to die from something someday and that is why I have this problem for people who say that if you eat this you can get cancer or some other dasease. I for one think that is just going to the extreme. I mean comeon its like saying we all have to live in a bubble and you can't live and enjoy life.

Live life enjoy it while you can because you only get one.

MojoMan220 · #6 10-28-2002, 12:30 PM

The really old cigarette commercials are a riot with the facts we know today. They actually have one with the Flinstones smoking!

***Nate*** · #7 10-28-2002, 08:14 PM

I know a lot of girls who started smoking because nicotine reduces your appetite.

Also, this topic made me remember some of my friends who took up smoking young.

We were in year 8 (13 years old) and we did an experiment in Science where we took cigarettes and used a special syringe thing to suck in the smoke and trap the tar on some special filter paper. The whole idea was to scare us off smoking forever. It didn't work! Some of the 'try hard' kids nicked a couple of the cigarettes and smoked them to look cool. Meanwhile the guys who really were cool just looked at them and called them idiots for wrecking their health. Some of those kids then kept on smoking as they thought it would make them cool and then got addicted. They're still addicted now (8 years later) and they aren't any cooler.

The moral of the story: Don't smoke to be cool as smoking hasn't been cool since the sixties.

Majic · #8 10-28-2002, 10:04 PM

O now, theres plenty of other things to smoke that aren't really dangerous, illeagel or harmful. Theres a page somewhere (do a search for legal highs) that has plenty of junk.

I tried smoking catnip a few times. Not very strong I imagine (compared to what other things would be like). Really though, its at leasst a good laugh to run around smoking with a catnip joint. Tehehe.

ZombieX · #9 10-28-2002, 11:55 PM

Yeah, smokers are so stupid, what idiots. *sniggers*

The moral of the story: Don't smoke to be cool as smoking hasn't been cool since the sixties.
But you've never been in the '60s....

I suppose you people are the kind who when offered a joint "walk away laughing, leaving the group wondering what you were laughing about".

*sighs*

Ashe · #10 10-29-2002, 01:15 AM

Hello MojoMan. I do not smoke myself but when I was in school some people in my class did. I would find that often the smokers would stick together or sometimes be the popular ones at school. Some people smoke because of peer group pressure, like if all of their friends are doing it. But I think people like that must be easily led as they seem to not be able to make their own decision. And when they realize later in life they might regret it because they realize about health and things like that.

Joshy · #11 10-29-2002, 05:05 AM

Maybe they think its cool.

Jacob · #12 10-29-2002, 04:33 PM

Nate, your 21 and your still using words like "Cool" and "Cooler"?
Smoke if you want, i dont care. Smoke Cannabis though...hmmmmm...whats y'alls oppinions on Canadianabis?

GTdragon · #13 10-29-2002, 04:43 PM

Yep, I remember the first time I had a smoke. It was out of pure curiosity. But, It felt like I was suffocating, hard to breath and s*** like that.

***Nate*** · #14 10-29-2002, 09:35 PM

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Originally posted by Jacob
Nate, your 21 and your still using words like "Cool" and "Cooler"?

Yes, it's frightening isn't it.

Actually I was referring to when I was 13, so the concept of coolness was important back then.