Response

Response essay 

Chase Newman

Why do you think people start smoking? If you smoke why did you start? If everyone talks about how bad it is and wish they never started why did they start knowing its bad for them? 

Some people say it's because the look and social effect. But why does smoking look cool? Shaking a cigarette out of a pack and placing it between your lips, bending over and shielding the flame from the wind when lighting up, taking a long drag and exhaling sideways while in a deep thought or appear to be in deep thought. Or maybe it's just looks cool cause it's what everyone is doing, or maybe even the bad boy effect it has? What ever the reasons that make it look cool, everyone wants to look cool and fit in right? If everyone around you is smoking and your the only one not smoking would you feel like you don't fit in? Would it be much easier to accept the offer to smoke if you were the only one without a cigarette in your whole group? So maybe that's the reason people begin to smoke, to fit in or look cool. It could be the whole life style too. If the people you role model to be like or the look your going for, a lot of different cultures of people smoke if the look or culture of people your going for smokes it could make you want to in Oder for you to complete that look or live that life style. Celebs have a great effect on it to as a little kid or even now if you see your favorite athlete, actor, or singer smoking you might think its cool and ok to do just because of that like there where they are today and they smoke maybe I can be like them if I smoke it wouldn't hold me back from achieving what I want they smoke and made it.

Or maybe it's because of another reason maybe they grew up with it in there house hold. What if your parents smoked or your brothers and sisters? Would you feel like you had to smoke cause everyone else In your family does? Every little boy wants to be like there dad when there young if you saw your dad smoking wouldn't you think it was cool and want to? Maybe it's easier to accept the offer to smoke when you see your parents and family do it every day, there alive and don't seem to unhealthy and they do it, it couldn't be that bad. The percentage of people who smoke that have parents or older siblings smoke is higher than the people who's parents and siblings don't smoke. 

There's many other possible reasons too though, could it be that you want to do it more because your not aloud to as a kid? The curiosity to smoke may be what ends up getting you to do it. If there was a piece of candy in your house in front of you everyday but you were not aloud to eat it wouldn't that make you want to eat it more? Or eventually when you were aloud to eat would you take that chance at the candy you just wanted to try for so long and eat it? Temptation of what you can't have or do can sometime be enough to make you get it or do it.

Some people say that do it to stay awake. If you were a truck driver and had to drive multiple hours a day even through out the night wouldn't you want to stay awake? You'd have to. A lot of people believe that smoking is one of the most effective ways to stay awake. So if something as simple and easy lighting a cigarette putting it in your mouth and inhaling and exhaling can help keep you awake for hours while driving on the road wouldn't you think of it as a easy and maybe the best solution and want to do it? So that could be another reason people pick up the habit if smoking to stay awake wether it's because of a long shift at work, driving a long distance for a really long time or any other reasons you'd need to stay awake. 

Your feeling over weight and looking for easy solutions to lose a few pounds, you ask your friend how she or he lost those extra pounds and they tell you it happened when they started smoking. That sounds like a really easy way to stop, you don't have to go to the gym you don't have to do all those tiring work outs that take so much time out if your day all you have to do is smoke some cigarettes, no diets nothing just smoke sounds easy huh? Would you start smoking if you thought about it like that? It sounds much easier and less time consuming and just a better simpler solution that may cause you to start smoking. So maybe people start smoking to lose weight.

The fact of the matter is there are many reasons people start smoking even though they know it is bad for them.