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- Amber Fairweather: Flint, 19, started smoking at the age of 15 and does not know why he started.
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- Naomi O’Neal: Kelly, 21, started smoking 6 years ago. She said she started smoking just to piss her parents off.
Tag Archives: Smoking
40s Smoker
Jessica Laskowski: Jenny, 48, started smoking at age 18. She explained she started smoking “to fit in with the rest of the group."
Older Smoker
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- Amber Fairweather: Ramone Cruz, 50, started smoking at the age of 12 because of his friends.
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- Jessica Laskowski: Carole Parrish, 60, started smoking at age 45. “I don’t know. I guess it became a nervous thing. I was going through a lot of stuff when I started smoking.”
Younger Smokers
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- Kate Zorichak: Emily, 16, has been smoking for one year. “I don’t know why I started, just something to do I guess…you don’t have to show my face in the picture do you?”
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- Regina Rahill: Matt, 15, smoking his first, and him mom hopes, last cigarette.
Older Smokers
Jared Gruenwald: “I’ve actually just started smoking. I was never a cigarette smoker but in my line of business everyone smokes cigars, that business being affluence, of course,” chuckled 44 year old stockbroker Walter Kiley. “A fine cigar is the token of the rich man, and I feel it’s my duty to smoke them.”
Free Selection
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- Erin Edwards: Roderick, 25, a resident director at Temple Towers, has been smoking for about ten years. He says he started out of curiosity and now he just does it out of habit.
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- Jared Gruenwald: “I feel as if society has cast aside smokers. No longer are we free to pollute the air without being subject to ridicule. We smokers are slowly becoming second-class citizens. I can’t even smoke in my apartment,” said a disgruntled Dan Conway. “I’m 21 years old and I have been a smoker for 9 years. I can’t remember why I started, boredom I guess, but I can’t stop now. I’m a victim and am being treated like the enemy.”
Anti-Smoking Ad
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- Beth Bannon
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- Regina Rahill
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- Topia Tessema
Younger Smokers
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- Steve Gengler: Laura Brennan, of Washington’s Crossing, PA, attributes her smoking habit to long drives, among other things. “I feel like I didn’t get addicted to cigarettes until the summer after I graduated. I would always drive to the beach and smoke the whole way down to pass the time.”
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- Matt Dinkel: Sarah Mueller, 20, said “I started smoking when I got to college. It was a way to meet people.”
Older Smokers
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- Steve Gengler: 54-year-old Jim Thomas didn’t start smoking cigars until he was in his forties. “I started because one of my buddies was really into them and he got me hooked,” said the native South Philadelphian.
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- Colin Lenton: Ken, a 47-year-old artist, had been smoking for 30 years. “I’m not embarrassed, we’re all going to die some day and I enjoy smoking.”
Free Selection
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- Allison Howe
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- Jing Li
Anti-Smoking Ad
Allison Howe
Older Adults Smoking
Sarah Kavicky