Advocates of advertising restrictions would like the public to believe that tobacco advertisements cause young people to start smoking. Most experts, however, say the most powerful determinants of smoking are parents, peers and older siblings – not advertising. When children are asked about their motivations to first start smoking they usually reply with a response such as “all of my friends where doing it”, “I just wanted to see what it was like”, or “My parents do it”. So we find that pressures of personal and social influences surrounding someone are the main factors that cause someone to start smoking. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) three out of five young people that experiment with tobacco get addicted to nicotine and become daily smokers throughout adulthood. Half of them will die prematurely. Most of the young people that get addicted to tobacco do not understand the nature of nicotine addiction and the long-term consequences of their action.

Nicotine, chemically, is a poisonous alkaloid (other alkaloids include cocaine and morphine), which when inhaled in cigarette smoke has major effects on your mood. When you inhale cigarette smoke it goes into the lungs and here the nicotine diffuses into the blood causing

most common form of smoking today is through cigarettes. Although studies continue to show the harmful effects of smoking, people continue to become addicted to this substance. According to the American Heart Association “more than 6,000 people under age 18 try a cigarette each day, and each day more than 2,000 persons under age 18 become daily smokers”. The most obvious reaso

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