Why do people smoke 1People smoke for a wide variety of reasons. Once they have smoked their first few experimental cigarettes, which can cause coughing, nausea and sometimes vomiting, most smokers get pleasure from the taste and aroma of tobacco and tobacco smoke. They may also get pleasure from the whole ritual of lighting up; from handling cigarettes, a lighter or matches; from the action of inhaling and from watching the smoke curl upwards. Smokers make two claims for their habit. First, that smoking sedates them, or ‘settles their nerves’ when they need sedating. Second, that it acts as a stimulant when they need to work. Read the rest of this entry »

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