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Why People Keep Smoking?

Many people are smoking these days; men, women, poor people, rich people, and not only adults, but also teenagers and children. This habit has become a part of our culture since long ago, and now it is become one of the most complex problem that society want to remove. Yet, whats the problem with smoking and cigarettes? Smoking can be dangerous for health, not only smokers health but also people surroundings. Marjorie Jacob in From the First to the Last Ash: The History, Economics & Hazards of Tobacco from healthliteracy.worlded.org says, About 53,000 people die from second hand smoke every year. Cigarettes can kill thousands people and distant us from healthy air which is a human rights. On every single cigarettes packs and advertisements in this country are written Rokok membunuhmu which means cigarette kills you. Smokers know all about the dangers and the warnings. But they are just ignoring it and keep smoking. For old smokers, they have addicted with nicotine, therefore they hard to stop. But there are always new smokers.Most smokers start smoking from very young age, so new smokers come from young generation. The times which start smoking seems from school age, like from high school and junior school, even elementary school. From M Reza Sulaimans Lihat Anak SD Merokok, Ridwan Kamil Khawatir Pergeseran Usia Perokok health.detik.com, In Indonesia on 2013, 18.3% smokers were in 15-19 age range, data from Riset Kesehatan Dasar(Riskesdas).And now we questioned how could they start smoking from very young age? There could be many factors which influenced them. Teenage and also pre-teenage is time to find ones identity, smoking is a way to find something out. Environments are the biggest factor for someone to get influenced, for example from people surroundings. A family which has smoking parents, hence the child get wrong example and want to imitate his or her parents. Friends can be bad influence too. When someone is joining in a circle of smokers, he or she may trying to smoke so she feels accepted by them, otherwise some friends invite him or her to smoke. Moreover, advertisements also contribute to make youth become smoker. From time to time, cigarettes company advertisements increase and become more vary. These media advertisements can attract youth to smoke cigarette.Then, young smokers become adult. For adults, cigarette may be an escapement and entertainment. When someone gets stress because of some problems, she or he may found smoking as refreshment. This may be a kind of energy recharge to go through all those problems. Polly Kerr in article Why is smoking so addictive? says, However, nicotine also temporarily reduces stress and can make you feel more content. This is because it causes a chemical called dopamine to be released dopamine is associated with feelings of pleasure. This also contributes to making nicotine highly addictive because after a while, nicotine reduces your brains ability to get these same feelings. Therefore, you need more nicotine, and hence more cigarettes, to get the same effect. Consequently adults become addict to cigarette because of this effect.People who smoke cigarette usually are men, but in recently women do it as well. Women also have their own reason for smoking cigarette. Some woman really obsessed with perfect body. The perfect body that have attached with women image is slim body. So, women use cigarette as their diet method. There is many other methods to diet. But how can cigarette become one of the methods? However, smoking can press appetite. Somehow, smoking is lessening ones sense on taste and smell, so the appetite pressed. They think smoke cigarette is easier than other method such as controlling your calories or doing some training. Healthy method to diet is taking too much time and money, also the low rate of success. Because weight control with smoking is effective, women who diet with cigarette become dependent. They afraid they will gain much weight if they are stop smoking, so they keep smoking. Some research also proofed that after stop smoking someone usually gain much weight, because their sense of taste and smell become much better.Consequently, there are many reasons why people smoking cigarette. It mostly starts from very young age. Teenager also pre-teenager start smoking because of influences from their surroundings, such as from their family whom they often see smoking, from friends so the kid feels accepted by the friend, and also from the increase of cigarette advertisement. Then, adults smoking cigarette to refreshing, because adults get more stress and problem and smoking can give them pleasure sensation so the stress is reduced. And also, women have their own reason for smoking cigarette which is to control weight. Women are obsessed with slim body, and healthy diet is troublesome because it is taking much money and time also have low rate of success. Moreover dieting with smoking cigarette is easier because it can pressed appetite effectively. However, whatever the reason still smoking is bad for human because it cause more harm than good. It damages our lungs, brain, and other body functions. So smoking should have been stopped.

References:Jacobs, Marjorie. (1997). From the First to the Last Ash: The History, Economics & Hazard of Tobacco. Retrieved November 6, 2014, from http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/tobacco/Unit3/1why_people_smoke.htmlKerr, Polly. (2012, January 1). Why is smoking so addictive? Retrieved November 6, 2014, from http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/s/why-smoking-addictiveSulaiman, M Reza.(2014, May 5). Lihat Anak SD Merokok, Ridwan Kamil Khawatir Pergeseran Usia Perokok. Retrieved December 4, 2014, from http://health.detik.com/read/2014/05/20/125311/2587005/763/lihat-anak-sd-merokok-ridwan-kamil-khawatir-pergeseran-usia-perokok