I have heard what peer pressure can do, especially leading someone to do what they never wanted to do from the initial stage. I have also heard of how people suddenly develop a love for something, say alcohol or cigarettes, after just one trial. The thing is, I can never be influenced into smoking, no matter what people say or how good it satisfies the body system to feel good, fights depression, or makes someone strong enough to do something that they cannot do with ordinary human capacity.
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People say smoking is not actually a bad habit. I am not here to speak ill of people who smoke, but no matter how people justify it, I can never be involved with smoking.
Sometime back when I was in school, I had female friends who were very fond of shisha smoking, and according to them, inhaling shisha is likened to smoking not directly smoking. I was talked down to many times when I was offered shisha to inhale, but I refused. These ladies laughed and called me names, but I did not care. I knew that once I gave in to shisha, I would start getting lured into smoking the main cigarette. I did not want to give it a try at all.
People say smoking helps in performing tasks that ordinary human capacity cannot handle.
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I know this, and even if it is true, I still will not fall for it because I have seen many people who went to give it a try and, in the process, lost their senses. Maybe I have the capacity to withstand the drive it may bring to me, but I do not want that kind of enablement.
In addition, when people go into smoking Indian hemp because they want to be "high," many of them end up losing their mental health, and it is very bad. Way back in my hometown, I know of a guy who was initiated into a cult. In the process, he was forced into smoking India hemps because most of the things they do are not done with clear eyes. That guy lost his brain in the process. Till today, he is still chained in his family house. So bad!
Apart from all this, smokers are liable to die young.
In my country, on a pack of cigarettes, it is written boldly that "smokers are liable to die young." Even with this warning, a lot of people still go into it, and it makes me wonder and question myself, "If I go into smoking, it means I am reducing my lifespan. Do I want that?"
I have seen a lot of discussions on social media that challenge this warning, especially with how people argue that smoking does not reduce lifespan. They claim that if you examine carefully, the people dying are non-smokers, while the smokers are living longer. The example they always give is that of religious people and leaders who were not into smoking but died before chronic smokers.
No matter how anyone wants to justify smoking and lure me into it, I can never do it.
Thank You!