While nicotine consumption gives a momentary feeling of relaxation, it in fact increases your anxiety and tension levels. The dependence you build on cigarettes causes you to have withdrawal symptoms. So instead of the cigarette curing your stress, you get additionally stressed out for having a cigarette.

Adults with depression are twice as likely to smoke as adults without depression. There is a very complex relationship between mental health issues and smoking. While mental health issues make a person prone to smoke, smoking itself has been known to intensify those issues.

A survey conducted by Koan Advisory Group and Youth Ki Awaaz has shown that people largely remain indifferent to the anti-tobacco consumption warnings on movies and TV. Smoking by peers and stress were found out to be bigger factors that lead people to smoke.

Considering hookah and vape/e-cigarettes less harmful than cigarettes is a popularized myth. Tobacco use in any form is bad for you and in addition to that, the chemicals released when you smoke a hookah or e-cigarette are toxic and carcinogenic.

In a survey we found out that smoking by a family member or smoking at workplace largely do not encourage people to smoke while watching someone smoke on screen doesn’t directly encourage someone to smoke. However, smoking by peers or mental health struggle like stress do cause people to start smoking.