From year to year, smoking does not cease to be the main social disease of society. Most of all, the most vulnerable are exposed to it - children. Walking near any of the schools of a modern city or village, one cannot help but notice young schoolchildren, who are in a hurry not to breathe fresh air during a break, but to fill their bodies with cigarette smoke as soon as possible. The statistics are relentless: modern schoolchildren start smoking as early as 12 years old.
Why do children start smoking?
Each child has his own path to a cigarette, each in his own way begins to get acquainted with the not most pleasant part of the adult world, but most come to smoking for the same reasons. Despite the prohibitions of parents, teachers and constant talk about the dangers of smoking, children are entering this slippery path. So why do schoolchildren smoke?
The simplest, and perhaps one of the most correct explanations, is the example of adults. No matter how much they say in school about how harmful smoking is and how terrible the consequences are, if he sees adults smoking around him, he tries to imitate. If a family member smokes, smoking becomes a way to get closer to that person.
The example of movie and commercial characters who add a cigarette to the image of a rich and successful person leads children to try smoking in an attempt to become like their idols.
Smoking is fashionable and affordable
A schoolchild may reach for a cigarette if peers or older children smoke in his environment. As a rule, these guys start smoking in companies under the influence of friends and acquaintances, where smoking is considered fashionable. Firstly, it adds credibility in the eyes of others, because this action, condemned by adults, makes the student "more mature". Secondly, the sense of community and belonging, which the student begins to experience, becoming “like everyone else,” allows him to establish contact with other children.
Often, the reasons for the first acquaintance with a cigarette are their own curiosity and desire to experience new sensations, as well as idleness and the lack of interesting and useful activities.
In this case, the student's new entertainment quickly becomes an addiction.
The availability and cheapness of cigarettes on the market also adds a reason to the list of answers to the question. Today, despite laws banning the sale of tobacco products, any schoolchild can afford to buy a pack of cigarettes even with pocket money.
In order to prevent the problem, parents should carefully study together with their children the causes, harm and consequences of smoking, explain to children how this will affect their body. Only then can you count on what the student will think before opening his first pack of cigarettes.
