Have you ever considered, that cigarettes are one of the few lethal weapons which are legally accessible for anyone above the age of consent without necessity of having gun licence?
Reasons of smoking:
- Smoking can increase somebody´s feeling of maturity - as it was in one Czech novel where a very young hero during World War II meets a Jewish girl that escaped from concentration camp transport and he both scared to death and filled with compassion reassures himself of his adulthood and braveness by taking in several deep inhales from a cheap cigarette.
- It can also serve as a tool for improving a difficult social situation - in an awkward moment just put a cigarette to your mouth and take some poisonous air in and you get some precious seconds to think what to do next.
- Smoking can mean the same for smokers as going out to a park with their dogs to dog people - an opportunity to meet at least in one respect likeminded partner. You know the situation when you are asked by some attractive woman to light up her cigarette?
- Smoking calms down, therefore it´s a friend of overly nervous people
- Many people, especially girls, smoke to stay slim. I wonder if they know it is as much at cost of their health in longer term as anorexia?
- Rebellion and risk taking
- It seems sexy to some people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking
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