Why do people start smoking?

In 1492 just after Christopher Columbus came back from his discovered land America with his catch in the ship, somewhere next to the gold there was a product called ‘tobacco’. Soon it spread round Europe and was known as a luxury good for some centuries. Nowadays, despite the fact that the prices of cigarettes are increasing steadily, they became available to everyone. Meanwhile people seem to start smoking for many reasons: children desire to imitate adults, others find it relaxing and there are some who uses cigarettes for losing weight.
To start with, usually people become regular smokers since their adolescence or even childhood as they feel a craving to become a grown-up. Mass media contribute to the acceptance of a smoking environment by portraying smokers as attractive, outgoing, popular and sexy. For example, the famous ‘Marlboro’ commercial definitely affected a great number of teenagers who started smoking with a hope to become a strong, resolute and self-confident cowboy from the television. What is more, juvenility is usually a tough period of teenager’s life when he or she doesn’t feel like a child anymore and want to be responsible for himself or herself. In addition to this, young people are expected to prove their independence from parents by their peers and as a rebellion they start doing things they are not supposed to do, for instance, drinking alcohol beverages, using highly addictive drugs and smoking cigarettes, of course.
Secondly, people often start smoking as it helps them to relax. For instance, those who work an intensive and stressful...

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