do you encourage friends to try smoking?

Hi there Cherish 14! No, I don't smoke anymore and I do not encourage my friends to try smoking because I am well aware of its hazards. Now, I also hate the smell of smoke and I also know how dangerous second hand smoke is having written a public realm article about it in our college magazine. I also know other people who would try to convince their friends to try smoking but I hope that they too, would become aware of the effects of smoking and second hand smoke.

Never! Smoking is the worst thing human can do. I am saying this because I do smoke and knows how it controls our life. Initially only initially I enjoyed this habit but now it has completely disturbed my life. I can't run, can't play, and do other physically strenuous activities. Hundreds of potential carcinogen are there in smoke. People feel that it makes them alert, but actually it causes sleeplessness. I become anxious when I do not smoke. It is such a bad habit that I will not encourage even my enemy to try it.

I don't smoke and I would gently try and discourage other people to smoke when I can but I try not to make that big of a deal out of it. I have noticed one thing in life and that is people will not quit something, if they really do not want to quit something. So if that's your life, fine, please don't do it when I'm around and don't pressure me into doing it. At least that is my opinion on things and the way smoking goes.

smoking is literally inhaling smoke. It is the same smoke that came out from factories and cars. Hahaha. you could just imagine yourself inhaling smoke from a car. hahaha. just don't engage in it if you really don't want it. smoking is a form of fulfilling which you don't have. I mean, this people who smokes were not well fed during their infancy. You could notice that infants took their gratification from putting something to their mouth. I believe that smokers have not satisfied this stage of gratification from being feed in their childhoood years. and that is why during their adolescent, they cope up with this unsatisfied gratification through smoking. This is also true in drinking... All the same. I also believe that it is not addicting. It's just that people don't quit. They don't want to quit... IT'S ALL IN THE MINE!

Encouragin others to smoke is deadly and i dont do it. There is a chance that they might become addicted and i dont want to be ressponsible for that.Smoking is unhealthy and those who do smoke should advocate the benefits of not smoking.

never why would I want to kill my friends

I totally agree with you that smoking is very dangerous for health. Smoking is injurious to self and for others. I dont encourage anyone to smoke but few people due to stress level they try to finish the packs as and when required. Smoking is too bad for health.

Yeah right, she must be a real friend. She knows what you have to avoid and what would be bad for you. Maybe she just can't get rid of it, but for sure she knows its bad effect and she doesn't want you to have suffer from it. She's good at it, and she's good for you as friend. For me, of course, if I know something that would harm me and I love someone, I won't let him/her to feel my burden. If possible, If I would be in her place, I will do the same. That's how she treasure your friendship.

Smoking is not for all. So as a good friend one should never encourage one to smoke. It should be a personal choice for those who will smoke. It is always peer pressure that lead someone to try things that they don't really want. Which should not be the way for a real friendship to exist.But if all your friends are smoking every time you have gatherings its unfortunate you will be a passive smoker which is definitely much dangerous to your health.

I am not a smoker myself. i never have been. I would never encourage my friends or anyone else to try smoking. If anything, I would discourage it. I think it would lead to a healthier life.

hello cherish! your topic makes me remember my high school days. i have friends and classmates who had been smoking since high school and i know some of them finds it hard to quit smoking. well, i can remember there are friends who offered me to smoke that time,but i didn't. if i had tried to smoke, i just can't stand doing it so might as well not do it since i find it hard to try and i don't like smoke really. so, it's nice that your friend warned you and said you can't smoke since she knows the disadvantages of it.

I don't smoke. And I don't want any my friends smoke! But I'm sad that my boyfriend smoke much. I suggested him to give it up. He agrees with me. And He tried to do that. But he hasn't been successful. He smoked little than before but he can give it up while almost his friends smoke.

I am a smoker myself, but I never encourage my friends to try smoking. I do enjoy smoking a lot but I don't want my friends to experience the burden of smoking,like the addiction that it can cause,the health disadvantages one can get and ofcourse the hardest part how to quit smoking.So everyone out there,please dont start smoking if you can't control yourself.Have a great day mylotters!

I do smoke occasionly but I would never encourage anybody to.

Well, I don't smoke, and I encourage them not to try it. It's quite an unhealthy habit, and easy to get addicted to. I lost a family member because of a disease associated with smoking, so it's something I hope and encourage my friends not to do. I would never encourage them to try!

My encouragement will be to tell them to stop smoking cause its very dangerous to their health and I'm not trying to get sick all because they wanna smoke around. I have some friends that loves to smoke and I hate it when they start smoking around me when I tell them that I don't allow it in my car or apartment. Its really bad when your mate smokes. I tell them and even him that I can't take the smoke around me. I can't breath and everything in your body has to work a lot more harder from inhaling second hand smoke. Second hand smoke has a non-smoker at more greater risk than a smoker.