Is Smoking Cool?

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This is something i have been wondering about lately.

I Know there are health effects and everything but i have wondered whether it is cool to smoke. my first instics would be No way!! ! smoking is for losers! but then i wonder whether it is cool.

I dont think so but people seem to think it is. Last friday night i went to someones birthday meal to pizza express with some of my classmates and was shocked when a couple of them started smoking outside pizza express. inside i thought i was being a baby because everyone else were acting like this was normal. so maybe it is. Later in the meal some of them went outside for a smoke.

Ive been thinking that maybe i should start smoking. i dont want to and i think it is disgusting but if i did, people would maybe think of me as more cool and 'normal' After all everyone does it and before i didnt want to be a sheep and do what everyone else is doing, but perhaps it is something i can change, and yeah there are health effects, but maybe there would be many positive things that would happen as a result.

anyway anyones thoughts on this are appreciated. sory ive rambled on for to long.

I don't think it's cool...it's just another addiction.

Well not really - not if you do it for the fun of it, I did it when I was 15 for a couple of months and that was it. It seemed "big and bad" to everyone at school though.

I don't know about in England, but here in the US, it's quickly becoming less and less fashionable to smoke. I would never pick up an unhealthy habit "to look cool". It stinks, is bad for your and is expensive. 30 years ago, all the middle class parents smoked and in front of us kids. We had to sit in smoking sections of restaurants while we ate. Those of us with lung problems were told "it was all in our heads" because they didn't want to admit they were making us sick.
Now, it's associated with trashy folks and drug addicts. I don't agree with smoking bans in businesses but I can't stand being around people who smoke and throw their butts around, littering and starting fires.

Being cool as a teen only lasts so long but nicotine addiction can become a lifelong problem.

No smoking isn't cool. Not doing it is a smart thing to do.
If someone wants to smoke, it's their problem.
I wouldn't try to fit in by doing something harmful to my health.
What is sounds like those people are doing is peer pressure and you are starting to feel it too because you are feeling you have to do it too to fit in but you just aren't sure about it. Don't do it. You shouldn't be hanging around those people anyway IMO if they are putting pressure on you.

thanks for you're comments.
i get what you're saying but surely i would get more accepted?
Yeah i Dunno..

It kills and is disgusting.

Is acceptance worth dying for? Imho it isn't.

Hon, if you want to find out how "cool" smoking really is, go visit the lung cancer ward of your local hospital. If you want to look like people on chemo or in the last stages of lung cancer (bald, skeleton skinny, no strength), people who can't breathe without tubes sticking down their nostrils, people who can only say a few whispered words at a time before they have to stop to take another breath -- then by all means, go ahead and try it. But don't be tricked by the lie "I can stop anytime I want." Because you can't.

well ive noticed that the arguement they use for the fact that smoking kills is that you could get hit by a bus.
Now that sounds stupid to me.

And i No it is digusting. I dont even want to do it. But if its gona make me seem more 'normal'' and everything, is is a good sacrifice to make?

Personally, I dont smoke anymore. But-
If all your friends smoke, then chances are they will notice you more and think better of you if you smoke as well. Its a type of social stimulant for some people, and is more enjoyable when everyone around you does it as well. Im not saying its a good idea, Im just stating the facts.

Nicotine is a very addictive drug and in every way worth avoiding.

I started at the age of 13 because it was considered cool, but it is not it is an awful addiction that I have fought on and off for the next 38 years. I haven't smoked for a bit more than 2 years now but like any drug addict I still sometimes crave a smoke and know as soon as I give in that will be it, there is no such thing as "just this one".
You said you know it is bad for your health, Yes it is and worse you find out the effects years later.

We aspies have few enough friends, I have been watching on of mine die from lung cancer for the past 2 and a half years

It may be cool in an NT "trying depserately to fit in under peer pressure when you're 12" kind of way, but in reality, no it's not cool at all.

If all the friends smoke, maybe they could go together and get a group plan for burial plots or cremation.
Might get a good discount that way.

As the Mighy Boosh as proved, the size of your pipe shows your ranking status.

Normally I'd say that it's certainly NOT cool. But smoking a pipe makes you at least look- gentlemanly, posh, prestigious and intelligent. Getting cancer is small price to pay for that, right?

Also, you have to speak in a stereotypical posh English accent while smoking a pipe; in the same way that you have to speak in a Jamican accent if you smoke weed.

I tried a single roll-up cigarette back in high school, and I never smoked again because I didn't want to become addicted, but at least I can be proud that I didn't cough. I can honestly say that I've never smoked since.

I know what you mean. I'm the only one who doesn't smoke yet I feel left out when my friends and I sit and chat. Practically all of them smoke and talk about what brand of cigarettes are good. I often feel akward b/c number one, I'm not good with small talk and number 2, I feel like I stand out b/c of this and feeling weird sitting their without anything to preoccupy myself with such as smoking. I still don't want to smoke because I had a family member who died of lung cancer not too long ago. They use to smoke all the time. I just don't want to risk it. I also don't want to get hooked once I start. I've heard that's the hardest addiction to break and I know I get addicted to things easily.

thanks everyone
yh but couldnt i just get away with having a few.
i duno im torn between the two sides.

In the past i have told people that it is for losers, and i was then told in reply i was one. That was properby about two years ago, Maybe it could be a turning point??

xx