| When it comes to smoking, everyone, smokers and | | | | easier to increase the frequency of smoking. |
| nonsmokers alike, can come up with a long list of | | | | Another direct cause for a nonsmoker to start |
| negative effects from potential health problems to | | | | smoking is the people around them. If the parents |
| second hand smoking. We have been preached about | | | | smoke, it is hard for the kids not to imitate and try. So it |
| that all our lives in school and by the public advertising. | | | | is strongly advised to quit smoking when you have |
| But the number of smokers has not shown any signs | | | | kids. |
| of decrease. | | | | Peers of the same age can act as a smoking fuse |
| If we understand what makes young kids smoke the | | | | that is even quicker than the above mentioned ones. |
| first cigarette in their lives, we will be able to come up | | | | Let me take myself as an example. I did not light my |
| with better anti-smoking measures. The behavior of | | | | first cigarette until the last semester in the university |
| the people around kids and their role models is one of | | | | when some of my classmates began smoking and |
| the most important fuses. | | | | even sharing cigarettes. |
| Like learning moon walk from Michael Jackson, kids | | | | The effects that smoking people have on others might |
| tend to imitate the cool smoking moves that the actors | | | | be not so obvious unless you do not look back at |
| make on movies. At first, they may just make some | | | | them. Now that you understand what effects that |
| moves without inhaling the smoke into the lung. But | | | | smokers have had on you, why not stop yourself |
| later, they will brave it out when someone point it out. | | | | being one that might potentially produce other |
| That was how I got started. When it starts, it gets | | | | smokers? |