Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health. The effects of smoking have been big news for many years. Every year, more and more people try to quit, in vain. Today, there are more restrictions on smoking as well as volumes of research that shows the ill effects of smoking both on smokers and the people around them. Most of us have a pretty good idea of what the dangers of smoking are and what it can do to people. Despite the health warnings about smoking, there are still a lot of people who are hooked and it seems that they cannot turn away from this habit, most especially teenagers.
Teen smoking is one of the major problems of our society. Despite decades of warnings about the dangers of smoking, an estimated 4,000 teens in the United States light up a cigarette for the first time every single day. Most of the teen smoking cases occur due to environmental influence, meaning, the teenager merely imitates the behavior of an adult smoker who is usually a member of the family. Teens also shape their identities through movies, magazines, advertising, or videos. It is common knowledge that many so-called film and music icons have a number of vices, smoking being one...