There are many reasons why young people start to smoke.
Maybe their parents smoked.
Maybe they think they will look like their super-cool hero.
Maybe they feel that it makes them look older and more interesting.
Maybe they believe that smoking can calm them down, relieve stress, help them to concentrate, help them have a good time or any of the dozens of reasons that smokers can come up with to hide the facts.
The fact is that if kids start smoking before they are 15, they are likely to still be smoking as adults.
Why? Because they have become addicted to the drug nicotine, one of more than 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke.