Why do young adults want to start smoking

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It’s a bloody disgusting habit. Average cost of cigs is £15.70. Cheapest are £12.50, based on what cousin who works in a supermarket told me.

Because smoking is cool 😎

I don't think many do these days - do they?
I don't see many young adults smoking - it's the older generation that's still puffing away.

I dont think many young adults smoke now i think they vape which is significantly cheaper

Cousin asked for a young girl’s ID and was born Feb 2007!

I see more vaping rather than smoking.

I think it's coming back into fashion. Like heroin chic is becoming more in. Easier to stay skinny if you're addicted to nicotine rather than sugar 🤷‍♀️

Sort of disguised under the whole 90s/00s nostalgic vibe.

Well some do but it really seems to be a minority these days.
But to answer your question of why - who knows?
There's a lot of things people buy that I don't understand why they do it. But it's their money.

It’s complicated. You sound like a toddler asking the proverbial why, why, why!

Probably a test purchase by the company or trading standards.

We always spot test purchases where I work because no one that age smokes - they all vape or use pouches.

Theres a large group of language students from Spain in our town & they stand out as quite a few smoke which you rarely see any more

There’s been reports that young people are coming off vapes and smoking but how many is anyone’s guess.

Sadly, I think you might be right. My neices and nephews all smoke and they're in their 20's. All started on vapes then progressed to cigarettes. One of them started vaping but, because it's still a bit of an unknown, he decided he'd be safer smoking. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

The government need to sort it before it gets out of hand.

Tbf OP's only used the word why once.

In the 80s I started smoking because I thought it was badass. What a fucking idiot 🙄

And not just because badass wasn't even a word back then.

I started aged 19 because my bf smoked and I was a bit shy and socially awkward and I thought it would make me look sophisticated. Luckily I gave it up.
My nephew is 30, he started vaping about 5 years ago and now he smokes roll ups. I think it's for the same reason I started.

@Judiezones Roll ups and sophisticated? Really? Shy and roll ups? Nah! He just likes fags and makes poor decisions. Many younger people do. Easily led and not discerning.

because their parents/peers do

because they werent breast fed for long enough?

People in this country don’t like it when the government stop them from doing things which are bad for them.

What do you suggest UK Government should do?

Same reason they always did. To try and appear grown up. Because it's forbidden and therefore appealing. Because their parents say don't do it. Because for some people once you try it and get the nicotine hit then you want to do it again and again.

Maybe, just maybe, they like it? Why do we always assume everyone does things to impress others. I smoked for many years and I loved every moment. I gave up for the same reasons everyone else did, for my health. I never felt pressure to smoke or not smoke and I luckily never felt addicted. Smoking really reduces stress in the moment for those that enjoy it.

i started at 15
it was grown up/peer pressure.
now vape

No idea.

As a teen, I looked at it, as I could buy a new tshirt or a packet of cigarettes. The T shirt won every time.

Why would you want to do something that looks stupid, smells vile and turns your fingers manky yellow. Gives you chronic wrinkles and then lung cancer and then you die, leaving your family to grieve.

I'm mourning my longest standing drinking buddy, who died from lung cancer at 63. Gone much much too soon. 🙁

Thankfully my ds isn't stupid enough to smoke or vape.

I work on the kiosk in a supermarket. Most of my job is selling cigarettes/vapes/nicotine pouches.

The vast majority of younger smokers are vaping. The ones that are smoking are often on the 'luxury' brands like Marboro Gold or rolling their own (mostly, I'd guess, because they are smoking weed). But the majority vape.

In a nutshell that’s it. I smoked from 18-25 ish, started at uni because lots of my friends were doing it. When you’re that age you think you’re invincible.

I started on and off socially from 15. Really picked it up speed after a horrendous breakup at 28 which nearly killed me. Stopped outright at my first pregnancy aged 34. Now I'll very very rarely (once or twice a year) have a wee puff of a rollup.

With the benefit of hindsight I can see what it was doing for me.

I'm autistic, and didn't have friends or connections at 15 - it gave me acceptance into a 'club' where sharing of resources (kindness) in terms of borrowing and lending cigs, lighters, and when the smoking ban came in, there was an opportunity to chat to someone for a fixed e.g 5 mins in a quiet place.

I'm ADHD - and similarly smoking gave me opportunity to leave a busy, overwhelming pub or club for a window of brain space.

And at the end of a long day, they gave my wildly buzzing brain the excuse to stand outside, in the dark and the quiet deep breathing.

It's easy to say you can do all of the above without cigarettes, but life is full of things that don't happen until you have something to hook them upon.

I don't think I was ever, or have ever been addicted to nicotine. I have never 'craved' in the way that has been described to me.