[kwhitefoot]

> "It's not that I don't want to stop smoking, but the cigarette companies put chemicals in that keep me addicted"

> "I live in an environment that pushes me to smoke"

But those two things are true. The nicotine is addictive and being surrounded by other smokers, smoking materials, smoking in films and on television, all compounded to make smoking more attractive. Plenty of smokers offered me cigarettes when i was in my teens.