Why Do People Smoke?

Why do people smoke? I can think of a lot of reasons. Smoking is a marvelous chemical addiction to the smokers as if they were perpetually enslaved to it. Smoking is a lot of benefits without which addicts are easily driven mad or even hardly carry on their life. And to young people, smoking is the guarantee against their anxieties and insecurities.
Addicts cannot endure the unconquerable pain and agony during the initial withdrawal from smoking although they are quite clear that suffering is inevitable in the battle against the chronic suicide. That’s why it seems herculean for smokers to break free from cigarettes. Physically they are tortured by living without nicotine; psychologically they are tormented by the starved desire to re-taste it. Faced with the physical and psychological obstacles, they hesitate and become weakened in carrying on their resolution. They begin to think over whether it deserves the double traumas and finally quit.
Benefits derived from smoking include the weight reduction, the stress relief, the head clearing, and the relationship harmonizing. Cigarettes keep smokers thin, and then smoking is viewed as a workable and effective means to the end of staying fit. However, those who intend to reduce weight or to stay healthy through smoking are actually threatened with the more terrible hidden danger, lung cancer or other diseases. Comfort and relief can also be found in cigarettes according to the smokers. Without cigarettes, they can hardly be kept from nervousness, boredness, loneliness, unhappiness, and frustratedness. It seems that cigarettes can be paraphrased as all-powerful medicine. Cigarettes, as some claim, can better their mental muscles. After long-time work, a cigarette can easily enable them to think more clearly. Smoking has become a means of communication; people appear to be sociable through exchanging cigarettes and tacit seems to be naturally established.
To adolescences, a cigarette provides a symbol of maturity and independence, which are the necessities for them to gain the recognition they have been desperating for from their peers. Young people are so ignorant and vulnerable that they are not immune to the misleading of the TV commercials and of the street billboards. In their eyes, nothing is more attractive than a man standing alone with a lit cigarette dangling from his lips and with a trace of rebelling in his eyes.
Addicts cannot live without cigarettes due to their arrested dependence and the benefits, as they claim, gained from smoking. However, they overlook the negative aspects of smoking, and the young generation in particular, that meanwhile the cigarettes comfort the smokers the former also harm the latter, gradually and irremediably.