Question: When did you first start to smoke?
Answer: I started to smoke when I was 12 years old
Question: Who told you to smoke?
Answer: A friend from school told me to try it.
Question: Do you think smoking is good?
Answer: I don’t think smoking is bad.
Question: What are the bad things about smoking?
Answer: Getting caught by NCC teachers
Question: Do you think there is peer pressure involved?
Answer: Sometimes I think there is peer pressure involved
Question: Do you think a lot of kids smoke?
Answer: Yes, I think a lot of kids smoke because of peer pressure
Question: Did you think of quitting?
Answer: I thought about it before. . . . . .
Question: What do your parents say?
Answer: QUIT
The two teenagers interviewed started smoking at a young age of 12 and 13 years old. Also, they are affected by peer pressure. Hillman admits that he smoked to “get into” a group. At that time in his life, he may have met friends who have a negative influence on him. Like Harman, some teenagers know that smoking is bad for their health but they still smoke. Perhaps it is because smoking helps them relax from the stress that is going on in their lives. As a result, many teenagers do not think about quitting, they only care about short- term results, which is getting themselves happy and do not look ahead to the long- term sufferings.
*** These are the Souces I used from for this research. ***
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