Why Smoke if it Kills? Teenagers Undereducated?

and the more my azz hole prik of a husband smokes the sooner he will contract pancreatic cancer and croak. He has already lost 75% of it to pancreatitis due to the drink. Smoke you baztard. SMOKE!!!!

I started smoking when I was 12 because one of my friends was doing it and I wanted to look cool. Now at 22 I am addicted and yes you can quit, but I do not have the willpower for it. The way I see it is yes smoking can kill me, but what in this world can't? Should I quit crossing the street cause I could get hit by a car? or maybe quit eating chicken because I could get salmonella poisoning. The point is that not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer and not everyone who gets lung cancer smokes. So why not be happy where you are and what you're doing, because you never know when it will come to an end.

I have been a smoker for 16 years. Wow is that a long time. I started smoking just because my friends did. Yes, I could quit, if I really tried hard, but I am just not ready yet. I will agree that smoking causes some health problems, but I don't think that it causes as many as they say it does. I honestly feel that they just want to find something to blame illnesses on and smoking is a good choice. In my opinion, we all have to die from something. People who have never smoked a day in their life get lung cancer, have heart trouble, and every other illness that they try to link directly to smoking. In other words, whether I smoke or not, I am going to die from something. Do I condone smoking in those who have never started? No. I think that if you are not a smoker, don't start smoking. It is an addictive and expensive habit that it very hard to break.

My mother-in-law smokes all the time but she doesn't want to quit. She says that people who don't smoke die from lung cancer all the time, and that people who smokes for years don't always have cancer or some complication. She's really stubborn

I'd imagine that the reason for doing it is curiosity and with that, depending on age, comes kudos. Peer pressure is troublesome in the younger age group. If schools were to educate more than they currently do they'd have to begin around age 7 to begin the message in time and it would have to be reintroduced all the time to maintain current awareness. However, it isn't the responsibility of a school to be the only educator, parents are responsible too and fully responsible for what goes on out of school too, which is a time when a child might experiment. SO the parents should bear the weight of early and consistent education about the vile dangers of smoking. And so says an ex smoker. I began at age 16 during a period of extreme duress and I quit at 24, cold turkey and fully decisive that one day I wanted to have children who would not suffer during gestation as a result of my (foolish) choices.