Rather it starts out as using tobacco to calm oneself after an assault by a family member such as a parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, neighbor or friend. Perhaps it starts from seeing​ advertisements of people enjoying  life in such situations as sports or enjoying life with friends. Tobacco is becoming a part of  Americans lives at early ages and causing lifelong illnesses and premature deaths. Tobacco  is viewed as something refreshing to calm one's nerves to help relax and feel as though it's a part of your life that cannot be lived without. Tobacco companies know that not only is nicotine addictive but that there are multiple chemicals in tobacco that causes illnesses and diseases. Young   Americans are beginning to use tobacco products before  their lungs have even fully developed. This puts them in even greater danger for lung diseases. Tobacco companies realize this and so they aim that advertisement towards younger  people in an effort to get them hooked for longer periods of time.

It could be peer pressure that leads young people to tobacco. The desire to fit in with one's friends can be something that leads to tobacco use. Witnessing all your friends smoking and always offering you a cigarette can lead to one starting the dirty, filthy habit. I can recall as a teen wanting to be with my friends and when they would go out to smoke I would go with them because I thought they were cool and I wanted to be a part of the cool click. So I would smoke also. But I was lucky because one day I realized what a dirty disgusting habit it was and that it was something that I really did not want to do. Most youth are not so lucky and they fall into the trap of smoking with their friends and before they know it they're addicted to The Habit.

Parents have to be vigilant and start the process of enforcing what a bad habit tobacco use is from the time kids are still in the cradle. Parents must limit the access to potential Role Models such as parents who smoke because a son  wants to do what his dad does, a daughter wants to be like her mother. So when they see them smoke it's something that they are likely to pick up themselves. If we love our kids we must keep them away from tobacco because that can lead to lifelong illnesses and premature death. One thing that's worse than dying of not being able to breathe is living being unable to breathe.