Why do people smoke?

Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine, which is highly addictive. Like heroin or other addictive drugs, the body and mind quickly become so used to the nicotine in cigarettes that a person needs to have it just to feel normal. People start smoking for a variety of different reasons. Some think it looks cool. Others start because their family members or friends smoke. Statistics show that about 9 out of 10 tobacco users start before they're 18 years old. Most adults who started smoking in their teens never expected to become addicted. That's why people say it's just so much easier to not start smoking at all.

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Actually people can get high from cigarettes. It's not like being high from pot of crack but it is a relaxing feeling and you can feel lightheaded and a bit euphoric. It usually happens the first time that they light up and that first cigarette is what gets you addicted. You become addicted to the nicotine in the cigarette and once the nicotine goes away your body starts to crave it and you can get headaches and feel irritable. To combat those negative feelings you will light up again and the cycle repeats itself. That first high is probably the only high you will get from cigarettes since tolerance to it develops quickly and from that time you will simply smoke to chase away your withdrawal symptoms.