smoking is perhaps the most widely indulged in socail habit.it knows neither national nor gender barriers.in india there
are about 20 million regular
cigarette smokers and this number is steadily on the increase.in fact the consumption of cigarettes per adult per year in the country works out to be about 190
and gives one a fair understanding of the extent of this practice and its social acceptance.just why smoking appealed to human beings in the first place is hard to say.some uggets however put considerable social pressure on the average teenager to adopt the habbit.the come to consider it as something that will brand them as adults.cigarette somking is for them is the hall-ticket to adult company.the sight of others smoking,and an ample supply of cigarttes deepen their own feelings about the deprivation and compel them to begin.