Have you ever been pressured into smoking?

I have been fortunate that no one ever pressured me into smoking. I never really saw the thrill in smoking. Thankfully it is a habit I never submitted to. It is so much better for our health if we stay away from smoking.

hello...i totally agree with your thoughts...as parents one should be keen about what their children are doing...at the tender teenage everyone has a feeling to try new...they wont think is it good or bad..they will always be in high spirits.. but on other hand it should be inbuilt them that how harmful smoking is...it is not good both scientifically and morally to smoke..it damages your health and your nature...proper awareness should be there..government should come up with new ideas to for this awareness...

Hi tuckersheri. Yes, I was pressured into smoking when I was growing up. But as I hated peer pressure I was able to say no pretty easily. And the more someone would pressure me to try it, the more I would refuse. Happy mmylotting!

Well, a few years ago, my friends tried to pressure me into smoking. Obviously I declined, because I knew smoking was bad for my health. Then they called me names and I just ignored them. I made new friends afterwards, and never hung out with my old friends again. I think smoking is really bad.. It causes lung disease, make your teeth looks yellow and there are other harmful effects of smoking. So I will never start smoking.

Hi Tuckersheri, Nobody tried to let me smoke nor pressured me into doing it. I don't have friends who smoke. Women who smoke here are being looked differently and are frowned. This is especially so if they smoke in public --- at least that was how it was in my time. I have never been outgoing and I know lots of the younger generation, girls included, are into this. I do not like seeing younger people who smoke. I usually refrain from getting near them in public places. I know how bad smoking is to one's health. It is even more hazardous for people to be inhaling smoke from smokers. My late husband never smoked and I am glad I have instilled and reminded my children not to do it as they are not into this. Lastly, I hate the bad breath of smokers!

i hate smoking and i don't like others somking ,especially my friends.i often pusuade them to quit for it is really bad for health

???????????, ?????????????????,???????????????????????????? smoking is a very bad habit. it bring not only hurts for your health, but also the negative influence in mind and body harm. because, if you smoke when your kid around you, they definitely would be harm to their lung, in addition, starting to smoking maybe not the bad thing for them because their father smoking as well.

No friend, i have no such experience. I am not a smoker and i haven't ever tested it. And the studies says one puff enough to damage our lung and cause cancer and the chance is same for occasional smoker and chain smoker to get the lung cancer. Yeah you are right, the youth is now in the net of such bad habits and wasting their own life for just a few minutes of pleasure.I don't want to take such chances with my life. And i don't want to know that pleasure in it. Good topic.

I haven't been forced to smoke, but I have tried a couple of times on my own. It wasn't pleasant for me.

I think like you too. When I was a kid my friends started to smoke, but I refused to do so, so they told me that I was too childish and that I wasn't cool at all, and many other nonsense things. But come on... we were kids, of course we were supposed to be childish Kids really need to be educated in not risking their health just to look like adults, when they just look like kids playing to look like adults.

No one ever approached me about drinking or smoking. In fact I was an adult the one and only time that ever happened. I simply said 'no' and they let it go. I told them it wasn't wise, because of my current health, to take the risk. Lucky for me I was lucky enough to have people who respected my decision instead of laying on the preasure. Though I feel for those who don't have the strength or courage to say no.

Nope, I've never even considered it, and I haven't noticed any pressure to smoke (luckily). Maybe because my mother's a doctor and always has been very much against smoking, so I've been against it too, and when you're against something as a child you're often very much against. Some of my best friends in school started smoking when they were 12, but I never felt tempted to try it.

one my friend force me to smoke me, when i was in 15 years old, but i refused to do this i know it's bad for me still he pressured me a lot but i don't do that time, he just told me ,it never happens me any bad ,but i refused to do in that time. so, this is the a person who pressure me to smoke, this my experience of smoking pressure by a person.

When i first started highscool i was but it wasnt that bad and i was able to stop with one smoke