Why do kids smoke ?

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The book "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell has a GREAT chapter on this. He says that when polled, teens generally OVER exaggerate the dangers of smoking...they believe it takes ten years off your life, when it typically only shortens lives by 6 years. So they are well aware of the dangers.

His well-researched opinion is that kids don't smoke because they believe smoking is cool. They smoke because they think SMOKERS are cool. Teens who smoke generally care less about what others think of them, have less supervision than other kids, and do other rebellious things. To their peers, this is seen as something they desire...kids who are always trying to fit in to some group or another are very attracted to those who just don't CARE if they fit in or not. So they emulate them.

Pretty much the same reason adults do........they like it and then get addicted!

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