Teens And Smoking: How Many Teenagers Smoke?
I do find fewer and fewer adults I know smoke cigarettes today. But what are you finding among your friends and the people around you, either at work or school—is cigarette smoking popular and why?
Also, it’s a smelly, dirty habit. Your clothes stink. Your hair stinks. On top of that, you just can’t breath when you’re in a closed room with smokers.
I want to know also. What’s the deal with teens and smoking?
Kids start in college because they are free from their parents and therefore there will be no consequences, besides shortening your lifespan. All the small smoking groups from all the high schools all over the country are now thrown together on one campus and the groups are suddenly large and everywhere. Also, college is a time for the “I only smoke when I am drinking” smokers to appear. I was surprised to see who from my high school ended up picking up the habit. After all, a lot of them were so against it in our younger years.
Overall, I think smoking is less of a big thing then it was in the past. But hey, kids will be kids, and we are in no way immune to the pressures of life. Personally, I have never touched a cigarette despite a boyfriend who has been trying to kick the habit for almost three years now and my strange attraction to the smell of cigarette smoke.
Many kids play a sport in high school and the vast majority of high school athletes who take their sport seriously don’t smoke because they know it will ruin their bodies for the sports they play.
Usually smokers aren’t the best kids. The kids that I’ve seen smoke or the ones I’ve heard smoke, are not the best students. School is not a high priority for them. I think that kids these days have a better sense of what is good and bad, right and wrong, and smart or stupid. Smoking is seen as bad, wrong, and stupid to most people. So why would you do it? I think that is the outlook of a lot of high school students, the ones who don’t smoke at least. I think smoking among high school students is becoming less common, because high school kids are becoming more intelligent.
It’s amazing how easy it is for one to destroy their life and there’s no limit to how early or how cheaply it can begin.