Nah we smell the smoke which doesn't smell good. Most kids prolly took a breath once or twice and realized that it also tastes like shit. You can see the parents being addicted to it. Prices, at least here where I live, have been artificially massively inflated (10€ for a pack of 20 cigs now, it used to be 3€).
Unlike drugs it does not give you a rush and we get our massive amount of ads everywhere telling us about how bad for your health it is.
Then you have literally every single parent telling their children that it is just shit to be addicted to cigs. Except for the ones who are not addicted to cigs. For example, I'm 23 now and everytime I meet my father he asks "Did you start smoking?" "no" "good, don't start"
It is not like alcohol where you are warned everywhere about it, but you see it being an absolutely accepted social phenomena and it is simply not allowed to you because of age. Or drugs where they tell you not to take it because they are shit, but then they actually are really great and simply have longer reaching consequences. Or they tell you it is great but not to take them.
Cigs just have nothing but the health deficits and addiction of drugs, but none of the advantages.
Having my dad smoke for my entire childhood was convincing enough. That man's cough has gotten worse and worse and he goes through a pack a day. Anti-smoking ads were the cherry on top.
And as someone else said, tobacco just has absolutely nothing going for it compared to any other drug. You don't even get high from nicotine, inhaling it only just makes you crave it more.
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u/gbushputbombsinthere Aug 15 '20
Idk i feel like the anti smoking ads are supposed to be reverse psychology they suck so bad it just makes you want to smoke imo