Tobacco companies promote cigar smoking as pleasurable, a symbol of status, wealth and class
Many of the publications analyzed in this study discussed cigarette consumption in terms of average rates (e.g., one to five) rather than the specific numbers used in this study (i.e., 1, 5, or 20)
Critics such as Stanton Glantz claim that dual use poses higher risks than even exclusive smoking and criticize e-cigarettes on the basis that: providing e-cigarettes as a cessation aid produced 2.3 dual users for every person who stopped smoking cigarettes
Because that first cigarette tastes awful, our young minds are reassured that we will never become hooked, and we think that because we are not enjoying them we can stop whenever we want to. This was certainly my experience when, in high school in 2005, some friends and I sneakily purchased a pack of cigarettes from a vending machine in a twenty-four-hour diner