Were You Misled About Smoking At A Young Age - By: Aydan Corkern

This seems to be the reaction you get when you ask long time smokers why they started in the first place. They thought it was cool and besides everyone smoked back then. In the late seventies. Tobacco companies advertised all these people on television that looked so attractive when they lit up almost as if you had to smoke to enjoy the evening and another one was when they had all that neat camping stuff they offered you to encourage you to buy, and if you save your miles that come on the packages, you could get some great stuff. The real kicker was and is, when you smoke cigarettes, who has the breath to go camping and hiking and all of the other physical activities that you can do in the great outdoors? Making cigarette smoking look so glamorous and enjoyable is possibly the reason many people started this nasty habit, that now, they have so much difficulty putting down. Many can not do it even though they know there life depends on it and it does. You would be amazed at the number of people that have been diagnosed with lung diseases, but still continue to smoke. Many of them think that it is too late to quit, but as long as you are still breathing, it is never too late to stop. When a smoker is pressed about quitting, you will probably not get them to say when they will ever quit. This is the common response you get when asking a smoker why they are now spending such a large portion of their paycheck each week for cigarettes. We all know cigarettes are highly addictive and is as hard to quit as if you were hooked on some other kind of drug like cocaine or heroin. Is this all caused by being misled by the huge tobacco companies with all their advertising that was done about smoking in the past? They still have the nerve to continue advertising where they can even today and actually try to suggest ways to quit while they are still selling this deadly product. You should ask yourself if this advertising and peer pressure is what led you to smoking cigarettes at a younger age. Starting to smoke when you are young and impressionable, especially when years ago cigarettes were sold to minors like candy at the candy store, but you are now grown and still smoke. Knowing the proven risk of lighting up and the results that come from it, continuing to smoke can not be blamed on anyone but yourself. There is nothing you can do about being misled into smoking at a young age now, but you can make yourself stop just like you started, one step at a time. If you estimate what you spend on this habit now, that alone should give you some incentive to quit, not to mention what you are doing to your health.