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Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Professor007(op): 10:03pm On Sep 18, 2025
I don't smoke, but also I don't look down on people who smoke.

But still, I can't help but wonder: what's so addictive about smoking? And why do people still choose to smoke up on all the warnings and health risks?

Just the other day I came across an empty pack of cigarettes. Lo and behold, they've graduated from just writing "smokers are liable to die young" to know using graphic images of a severely cigarette-damaged lung. All this in a to dissuade people from smoking.

So, my question is, why do people still smoke when the disadvantages are so glaring?

Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Nobody: 10:10pm On Sep 18, 2025
It’s called addiction! They know the adverse effect but still cannot stop.

Nicotine is addictive. It takes grace and determination to quit.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by NoahHadNoArk:
If you like smoke


If you like no smoke


If you like use Protection, if you like dive in raw


Wetin sure pass be say, it all ends here.



Live a life you will remember

Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by eepeepook: 2:41am On Sep 19, 2025
Do you drink Coca Cola? Try abstaining from soft drinks for a full year. If you can, smokers should be able to quit cold turkey.

Nicotine is addictive. Look at how children struggle to eat meat. It is the same. The cigarette companies don’t care about the health of their customers. Those pictures are put in a bid for them to claim that sensible people were warned. They know very well any six year old will get hooked if he/she learns to puff smoke properly. Anyone who dies from cancer will be replaced in tens.

Professor007:
I don't smoke, but also I don't look down on people who smoke.

But still, I can't help but wonder: what's so addictive about smoking? And why do people still choose to smoke up on all the warnings and health risks?

Just the other day I came across an empty pack of cigarettes. Lo and behold, they've graduated from just writing "smokers are liable to die young" to know using graphic images of a severely cigarette-damaged lung. All this in a to dissuade people from smoking.

So, my question is, why do people still smoke when the disadvantages are so glaring?
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Originalsly: 4:20am On Sep 19, 2025
If you understand what is an addiction you'll understand why they smoke d spite knowing the danger ...and even suffering from the effects. I'm almost sure you masturbate ... I'm almost sure you know it is not good for you ... but you still do. Why? .. that's addiction for you.

Like some said before ..the tobacco itself is not addictive ... it's the nicotine. The cigarette companies know this and inject addictive amounts into the cigarette. These was a lawsuit in the US against Big Tobacco...cigarette manufacturers.itnwas filed by the FG and they won. Part of the decision was basically outlawing any form of advertising or encouragement for others. If we notice....in the US ..no smoking on TV shows...no smoking by actors in movies ...in buildings...no bill boards etc. Cigarette companies target the young ...get them to smoke early...they be hooked for a life time. Same path Big Pharma is on.... Loading babies with vaccines .... hooking them for a lifetime. If addicted to cigarettes...they offer "the patch" ...like a bandaid .That is packed with nicotine which enters the blood via the skin....and the nicotine addiction goes on. Who's fooling who? New York doesn't have a cigarette addiction problem among the youths. It's rare to see a youth smoking a cigarette. They introduced a heavy tax on cigarettes and keep raising it every year. Cigarette is pretty much unaffordable......s14 and change for the cheapest pack ...20 sticks. Lagos should impose same....make cigarette unaffordable.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by JuanDeDios:
Professor007:
I don't smoke, but also I don't look down on people who smoke.

But still, I can't help but wonder: what's so addictive about smoking? And why do people still choose to smoke up on all the warnings and health risks?

Just the other day I came across an empty pack of cigarettes. Lo and behold, they've graduated from just writing "smokers are liable to die young" to know using graphic images of a severely cigarette-damaged lung. All this in a to dissuade people from smoking.

So, my question is, why do people still smoke when the disadvantages are so glaring?
Because they think it won't hit them. Stats are just numbers. So if they say 90% of smokers die of something something disease, you reckon you'd be among the 10% who don't get the disease. Of course, you'd also know your auntie's husband who smoked all his life and lived to be 94. You feel sure that your case would be like that.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by zuby4real10(m): 7:36pm On Sep 20, 2025
The coke nd Fanta that u can not stop drinking do u think it is not also harmful. Addiction is addiction
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Kingju: 7:38pm On Sep 20, 2025
This is a really good question, I'm waiting for replies to see the reasons
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Hezzyluv: 7:38pm On Sep 20, 2025
Addiction na ya mate?

Sugar bad pass Igbo. But, people consume more of sugar then Igbo. grin
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Gotocourt: 7:39pm On Sep 20, 2025
Professor007:
I don't smoke, but also I don't look down on people who smoke.

But still, I can't help but wonder: what's so addictive about smoking? And why do people still choose to smoke up on all the warnings and health risks?

Just the other day I came across an empty pack of cigarettes. Lo and behold, they've graduated from just writing "smokers are liable to die young" to know using graphic images of a severely cigarette-damaged lung. All this in a to dissuade people from smoking.

So, my question is, why do people still smoke when the disadvantages are so glaring?
Cigarettes is the most taxed commodity at 70% but still highly in demand 📌💯
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Maj196(m): 7:39pm On Sep 20, 2025
I have never smoked before and will never do that sh*t
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Mariangeles(f):
NoahHadNoArk:
If you like smoke


If you like no smoke


If you like use Prtotection, if you like dive in raw


Wetin sure pass be say, it all ends here.



Live a life you will remember
It is no excuse to live carelessly and recklessly.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Deldrax29: 7:40pm On Sep 20, 2025
It's the evil of addiction. Even doctors smoke. But addictions are sometimes sponsored by spirits. That's why someone will know that he's killing himself but he'll still engage in the act.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by whatmoreng: 7:41pm On Sep 20, 2025
Addiction. Nicotine have its own therapeutic effects relieve stress.i don't expect you to understand. You don't smoke
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by ekitimanalways(m): 7:42pm On Sep 20, 2025
People keep smoking because the immediate, powerful forces of addiction and habit overwhelmingly outweigh the abstract, long-term knowledge of health risks. The addiction is both physical (nicotine) and mental (coping mechanism, ritual), making smoking one of the hardest addictions to break.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by studM(m): 7:47pm On Sep 20, 2025
It's an addiction,and there's always a spirit behind every addiction be it good or bad
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by ardex007(m): 7:47pm On Sep 20, 2025
Aluta continua, Victoria ascerta......


Smoking continues, cancer is certain..... grin grin angry
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by haybhi1(m): 7:48pm On Sep 20, 2025
Nicotine is the culprit.
Nicotine is the culprit.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Dreamhans1: 7:49pm On Sep 20, 2025
Originalsly:
If you understand what is an addiction you'll understand why they smoke d spite knowing the danger ...and even suffering from the effects. I'm almost sure you masturbate ... I'm almost sure you know it is not good for you ... but you still do. Why? .. that's addiction for you.

Like some said before ..the tobacco itself is not addictive ... it's the nicotine. The cigarette companies know this and inject addictive amounts into the cigarette. These was a lawsuit in the US against Big Tobacco...cigarette manufacturers.itnwas filed by the FG and they won. Part of the decision was basically outlawing any form of advertising or encouragement for others. If we notice....in the US ..no smoking on TV shows...no smoking by actors in movies ...in buildings...no bill boards etc. Cigarette companies target the young ...get them to smoke early...they be hooked for a life time. Same path Big Pharma is on.... Loading babies with vaccines .... hooking them for a lifetime. If addicted to cigarettes...they offer "the patch" ...like a bandaid .That is packed with nicotine which enters the blood via the skin....and the nicotine addiction goes on. Who's fooling who? New York doesn't have a cigarette addiction problem among the youths. It's rare to see a youth smoking a cigarette. They introduced a heavy tax on cigarettes and keep raising it every year. Cigarette is pretty much unaffordable......s14 and change for the cheapest pack ...20 sticks. Lagos should impose same....make cigarette unaffordable.
How is masturbation bad?
Capping
Seun and nonsense
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Belurved1(m): 7:49pm On Sep 20, 2025
Because not all smokers die young, smoking itself isn’t always about addiction.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by ArcSEMPECJ(m): 7:50pm On Sep 20, 2025
Smoking is addictive, and whoever indulges in it is like someone in cages by an invisible hands, while some who smoke seek for God's mercy and his words putting up a fight than relaxing in defeat, others tend to say it doesn't matter after all all deaths na die....

Smoking, masturbation, gambling, drug addictions are all brothers whose principal is call the Spirit of addiction, a very stubborn cedar of Lebanon that claims the life of people....

If you are not a victim, just rejoice but if you are, please seek the face of God, don't say you are defeated because what is wrong is wrong in all spheres ...Put up a fight , a good fight and defeat your prisoners...
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Saturnalia(m): 7:51pm On Sep 20, 2025
Belurved1:
Because not all smokers die young, smoking itself isn’t always about addiction.
Exactly! For example Chuba Okadigbo and Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Babatunde Raji-Fashola.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Belurved1(m): 7:53pm On Sep 20, 2025
Thank God for your life. No one is born a smoker, it’s a choice you can change.

Maj196:
I have never smoked before and will never do that sh*t
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by pipnator00(m): 7:54pm On Sep 20, 2025
Mehn,.. this topic reminds me of my grad-school days.

na cigarette save me from the heavy assignments.

But now I DONT SMOKE and NEVER will I EVER AGAIN!
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by Shimbo96(m): 7:54pm On Sep 20, 2025
That's what we call addiction, even if you want to stop you can't... the most dangerous and hardest to stop is COLOS. Even if you stop for 100yrs, the moment you try one trips again you are back to square 1.
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by LIVINGICONREBOR: 7:59pm On Sep 20, 2025
Nicotine is the addictive substance in cigarettes. Just like caffeine in Coca-Cola
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by yommygift15: 7:59pm On Sep 20, 2025
Ise Aye ni, aye tose'la tonight ko, lose'kan towewu eje, aye na lofiku kun han won but they can't run
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by StreetFight: 8:00pm On Sep 20, 2025
Professor007:
I don't smoke, but also I don't look down on people who smoke.

But still, I can't help but wonder: what's so addictive about smoking? And why do people still choose to smoke up on all the warnings and health risks?

Just the other day I came across an empty pack of cigarettes. Lo and behold, they've graduated from just writing "smokers are liable to die young" to know using graphic images of a severely cigarette-damaged lung. All this in a to dissuade people from smoking.

So, my question is, why do people still smoke when the disadvantages are so glaring?
If you don't smoke, if you don't womanize, if you don't drink alcohol, you will still DIE
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by ArcSEMPECJ(m): 8:00pm On Sep 20, 2025
Dreamhans1:
How is masturbation bad?
Capping
Seun and nonsense
Since you have been masturbating assuming you do, tell us one of the health benefits...

Can you masturbate in front of your parents or siblings or your Wife freelyhuh

Whatever that is done in the dark or even conceived in the dark lacks the Spirit of light which is the Spirit of goodness ...

The devil can easily possess or manipulate your stars of destiny through masturbation because you are using his nature to achieve it even if you are a good person..

And you know devil, if your stars happened to be great, lols , forget it , you are in for a big dragging and uselessness...

Note it please.....if your greatness is to be rich and a philanthropist, it won't come to pass

If your greatness is to be a speaker of truth, helping people , reviving lost souls, forget it , is gone until you wake up....

So while you might be prospering in wealth as that's not the first target of devil, believe me, that purpose that made manifest in heaven that your birth can be an evidence will never come to pass.....
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by StreetFight: 8:01pm On Sep 20, 2025
yommygift15:
Ise Aye ni, aye tose'la tonight ko, lose'kan towewu eje, aye na lofiku kun han won but they can't run
Awa ni Aiye, Awa l'awo shokoto egberun, won ko de b'ale
Re: Why Do People Keep Smoking Even Though They Know It's Harmful? by jericco1(m): 8:02pm On Sep 20, 2025
It is simple addiction. People have been drawn to it and some may not be bad.
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