Social pressure can lead to smoking cigarettes

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Social pressure can lead to smoking cigarettes
Add15years.com Add15years.in Author (Prof.) Dr.
S. Om Goel, MD/DM From family of doctors from
AIIMS, MAMC Delhi University MD Medicine,
USA DM/Fellowship, USA
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Social pressure can lead to smoking cigarettes
Pressure makes them feel they are being pulled in
two directions. When it comes to smoking
cigarettes, the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services noted the rate among teens that
have three or more friends who smoke is 10 times
higher than those that reported none of their
friends' smoke.
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Going for social events/drinking

• Some people smoke when hanging out with friends
  or to feel comfortable in social situations. 
• Social smokers smoke occasionally and almost
  always in groups-often while drinking alcohol.
• For many people, drinking alcohol is a trigger,
  or an activity they connect with smoking.

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Seeing someone smoke
Seeing actors smoke in a movie activated the
brain areas of smokers that are known to
interpret and plan hand movements, as though they
too were about to light a cigarette, according to
a new students.
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Being around smokers
Everyone knows that smoking is a bad idea. But
being around someone who smokes is also bad for
your health. Secondhand smoke is the smoke that
smokers breathe out and the smoke floating from
the end of the cigarette, cigar, or pipe.
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Being offered a cigarette

• Smoking increases the risk of mouth, throat,
  larynx, and esophagus cancer.
• Smokers also have higher rates of pancreatic
  cancer.
• Even people who smoke but don't inhale face an
  increased risk of mouth cancer. 
• Smoking also influences insulin, making it more
  likely that you'll develop insulin resistance.

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