Smoking can be an addiction or a habit. Smokers can be influenced by others e.g. peers which can be done to act big and show off infront of friends. Some smokers see smoking as pleasurable and a stress realiver, which helps to take your mind of things for a minute but not realising that the stress comes back which makes smokers addicted to cigerettes.

Smoking contains a lot of harmful substances and one of them is nicotine which plays a part in causing bad health which is a slow process which may result in death.

Smoking is a bad behaviour as this can affect a personally mentally and phyically also emotionally also other around them which is known as passive smoking.

As a teenager who was surrounded by mates who smoked I had determination to not smoke myself as I was peer pressured in doing it.

In terms of mothers smoking can cause their unborn babies to be involved in antisocial behaviour as proven by researchers in this article http://www.zampbioworld.org/bionews/index.php/2009/02/03/15942