Why Some People Smoke?

Do you know what kills more people than car accidents, drugs, AIDS, and fires combined with each other? It’s smoking! Many researches showed smoking is like slow suicide, because it affects in the health of the body and mind of smoker. It also brings them lots of disease, such as asthma and cancer .It also it has big effects their financial situations because they spend lots of money to buy cigarettes. There are three main factors that make people smoke: psychological distress, ignorance, and the social environment.

The most important reason that makes people smoke is psychological distress, So they resort some people to smoking to relieve anxiety and pressure so fancy a lot of people that smoking gives them a sense of self-confidence and a sense of internal security. For instance, when some people feel frustrated and inability to change the social reality , economic and political because of problems with her/his parents, friends or fear of the future. Also some people they want to escape from reality or depression for some reason such as the death of a relative or one of his parents. For example, one of my cousins  started smoke after his sister dies. In addition to the use of smoking as a way to get rid of feel inferiority and hide the shame and confusion to the psychological satisfaction and pleasure because the cigarettes contain nicotine then they expect feelings of relaxation, sharpness, and calmness. For those psychological conditions reasons some people resort to smoking.

Ignorance is lack of knowledge, understanding, or education and lack of awareness of the damage of smoking ,and that makes some people in Saudi Arabia want to smoke. Most people who are smoking do not know the true size of the problem of smoking, and more intellectuals know Ignorance is lack of knowledge, understanding, or education and lack of awareness of the damage of smoking that makes some people want to smoke. Most people in Saudi Arabia who are smoking do not know the true size of the problem of smoking .They do not know how smoking will affect their health such as some diseases such as cancer and heart disease and affect their standard of mental and psychological .More intellectuals know that smoking is harmful to the lungs and the heart only, and few of them realize the impact of smoking on non-smoker. In some parts of the world such as Saudi Arabia there is no awareness in school or in ads in TV about the risks and complications and of the smoking, so that Increases the number of smokers.

Also there are many social factors that make people smoke. Such as imitation of other fellow smokers because they are afraid to disagree on others or desire to join a group of colleagues and friends smokers, So they expect that this would reduce the welcome their friends to them if he do not smoke .They want to imitate of movie stars, television, parents, relatives, or to try to provide a picture of the same forces and is characterized by rigidity, curiosity and curiosity to see how something that causes pleasure of smoking. Also family factors play a key role in influencing family members. For example, if the parents are smokers contagion smoking to their children, and that children are affected by their environment family, so increasing the proportion of smokers among young people who have smoking habits of the traditions of their family, or the lack of control over the children, high-level material for the family if there lot of money with children driven by the desire to experience everything new as cigarettes. Imitation friends, celebrities and family those are some reasons that lead to smoking.

In conclusion, the most important factors that lead to the desire to smoke are; Psychological factors such as depression, frustration, lack of awareness of the risks and damage of smoking on health, finance and social factors such as imitation parents and friends. I expect that more smokers are teenagers, I suggest to increase awareness in schools about the damage and the effect of smoking on the money, and physical and mental health .Also I suggest that prevent the ads for smoking because it manufactures many of these cigarettes forms attractive and different flavors, and its only want to a temptation and the lure of these things.