# Why do people smoke cigarettes?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 1, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-smoke-cigarettes/470602 "2008-11-01T18:04:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-smoke-cigarettes/470602/41 "2008-11-02T22:20:41Z")

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My first cigarette at aged fourteen nearly made me vomit but I did turn green anyway.

The ONLY reason I smoked,and continued smoking cigarettes was because at Grammar school the hard boys,the roughy toughy rebels and all the other juvenile tripe we believed in showed us to be a little bit better then the other goody goodies.

Of course after a while I succumbed to nicoteine addiction.

I was never a hypocrite,always believed it was a totally stupid practice and admitted it to others,but I also think that its every persons right to indulge if they want to.  
I gave up several years ago before you ask.

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