• Question: Why do people smoke????????!!!!!!!!!!!

    Asked by alesha to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 12 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 12 Mar 2013:


      Roughly 7.1 billion people as of this morning -> http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

      If you put in your date of birth here, you can also see what number you are! -> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

      Woops; thought this was a completely different question!

    • Photo: Marina De Vos

      Marina De Vos answered on 12 Mar 2013:


      People often start smoking under peer pressure and get addicted to the nicotine. Then it becomes hard to stop.

    • Photo: Claudia Krehl

      Claudia Krehl answered on 12 Mar 2013:


      As Marina said there are two reasons. One of them is cultural pressure and peer pressure. Sometimes all of your friends smoke and you might think you should do too so you are not excluded anything. The same can happen later on in life if your boss is a smoker and that’s the only time you might be able to bond with him or her. But once you do have a cigarette your body craves more due to the addictive substances in cigarettes.

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