No Explanation for why Teenagers Smoke

What are the main causes which make teenagers to take up smoking? Unfortunately nobody especially adults can’t explain that. And so, concentrating on one single risk factor is not likely to help adolescents abstain peer pressure to smoke, or help improvement the understanding of why young people smoke, Dr. Jennifer O'Loughlin and colleagues reported in a recent study.
Ms. O'Loughlin, at the University of Montreal in Quebec, suggested that attempts to prevent smoking should take into account factors such as age, self-respect, alcohol use, and academic luck. Among those enumerated factors should also be added contextual factors such as smoking in parents and friends, and school smoking policies.
Researchers studied how numerous factors changed smoking initiation among 877 students (half male), who were pushing 13 years of age at the start of the study and had never smoked... Source: Tobacconews