Select a dinner table or any other gathering and you will discover that the person who lights up a cigarette is regarded like he is a leper. One after the other, his seatmates will look for another seat or table.
It is even more embarrassing when one will be frank enough to say, “Excuse me. I have to move because I am allergic to smoke.” At the least, they would regard you as uncouth, ill mannered and ugly looking.
Moreover, there are people who used to tell their loved ones that if they smoke cigarettes, they taste like one.
In this context, it is clearly seen that smoking is not only a factor on health problem but is also a socially relevant issue. This is because people continue to type cast people who smoke.
For example take how men view women who smoke. There are men who instantly get turned off whenever they see beautiful women smoking. Contrary to some popular belief, men do not really find women smokers sexy. They think about what their kisses will taste like.
In fact, studies show that smoking can really cause bad breath among women. It can even trigger gum problems like gum discoloration and tooth loss.
Moreover, smoking also lessens the skin’s elasticity, thereby, resulting in the accumulation of cellulite. This, in turn, is such an unsightly appearance in a woman’s skin.
Thus, men don’t just get turned off because of women smoking per se but due to the fact that a woman’s appearance does change because of smoking.
On the other hand, men get the same dose of rejection whenever somebody sees them smoking.
Before, people tend to think that smoking brings out the machismo in a man. But with all the bad effects smoking can give, that assumption has gone the way of buggy whips!
It’s no longer the battle between who looks brawny or not. It’s now the battle between who smells good, looks good, and tastes good. After all, who would dare kiss a man whose mouth tastes like burnt papers, right?
After all, smoking does not even contribute anything for their “machismo.” In reality, it even loses them some of it, if not all.
Studies were conducted about the direct effect of smoking on men’s erectile dysfunction. The results of the study revealed that smoking certainly heightens the perils of erectile dysfunction by approximately 50%. This is applicable to men in their 30s and 40s and represents a huge percentage of men in the U.S.
On the other hand, there had been continuous studies on teenagers about their social behavior and how smoking affects a greater part of it.
In the 2001-2002 study, the group researchers had found out that teenage smoking had considerably dropped by 5% compared to the last survey results in 1996 and 1997. The group tried to find put what triggered these teenagers to cut down their cigarette consumption.
At the later part of the study, they found out that due to increased price in tobacco and less exposure to smoking advertisements had considerably sparked off the said result.
Moreover, the researchers tried to disseminate campaigns with slogans like “Is this what your kiss tastes like?” which was used before by the World No-Tobacco Day celebration in the 90s. It simply emphasized the effects of smoking to the view of the opposite sex to those who smoke.
After which, a series of interview had proved that teenagers had now been aware how smoking can actually deglamorize their appearance, their whole being and personality to the opposite sex.
Conversely, the main reason why teenagers decided to quit smoking is based on their fear of not being accepted by their opposite sex. This goes to show that they value physical attraction and fear of rejection more than health. These are greatly reflected on the answers of some teenagers who asserted that they would rather date someone who does not smoke than somebody who smokes and smells really bad.
All of these things boil down to the fact that when teenagers become aware about the effects of smoking on their health as well as on their physical appearance, they tend to quit smoking or do not try at all. It’s just a matter of awareness.
Then again, it could be well noted that advertisements really do have an impact on smoking habits. That is, if people will only be less exposed to cigarette advertisements; there would be a more considerable decline in the number of smokers.
Indeed, smoking can really deglamorize one’s personality, and so, it’s just about time to stop smoking and think about how it really makes you stink to the opposite sex. Just think about it.
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