Why do people, knowing the consequences of smoking, smoke……..?
I reckon if it’s part of adolescence – the growing person with an immature brain undergoing hormonal shifts, increases and rushes, it is far more likely to make a career smoker out of a person as it becomes ‘hard-wired’, expedited by all that activity, into the mature brain… – that these are the people who would find it most difficult to quit. What I find remarkable is that the smell is immediately deterrent enough – so the taste and effect must be great to overcome this – but the term ‘like kissing an ashtray’ isn’t about anyone other than smokers and I clearly remember someone telling me shortly after they started that if they hadn’t smoked for a day and then had a cigarette, that they had to sit down to avoid falling over – the effects being enough to immediately impair balance & coordination…., not a welcoming thought at all unless the specific aim is substance abuse leading to narcotic high.
