smoking

The dangers of smoking is widely documented in the media and has been for years. There are pros and cons for the different reasons as to why people would statrt smoking. Many things such as peer pressure and to be social, contribute to someone starting smoking but it can't be argues that the media play a big role in influence the positive attitude of smoking.

However smoking is highly dangerous and people have known this for years but still carry on smoking. The way smoking is portrayed in films could be blamed for this as often the media will depict smokig as being "cool" or "seductive".