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Practically no one suddenly decides at 35 years of age to become a smoker. In almost every case, smokers start this habit when they are young, before graduating high school. Pretty much, if you can make it past the teen years without using tobacco, you are never going to use it on a regular basis. As a parent, you’ve got your work cut out for you because even though tobacco companies cannot advertise to the extent they would like, they still get the message out to your children in movies and TV. Smoking still looks cool to many kids and kids typically discount the health risks because the future seems so far away.

Smoking is a potentially deadly habit that most parents hope their teens never pick up; however, despite parents’ best efforts, some teens fall victim to the temptation of smoking. Whether as the result of peer pressure or in an attempt to assert their maturity, some teens opt to begin this addictive practice and, once started, find it challenging to quit. While solving the problem of teen smoking is by no means a simple one, there are things that can be done to reduce the likelihood that teens begin to smoke.

Did you catch your teenager smoking? Wow. Whether your teenager started drinking or smoking just because his friends were doing it doesn’t matter. What matters is that he may now be addicted and needs your support to help him stop. It is not going to be easy for him, as a lot of his peers are probably smoking and drinking, too. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, nearly 80 percent of teenagers report having tried alcohol by the time they reach high school. While some teens may be able to quit on their own, others need help in the form of medical or other formal interventions in order to quit.