Smoking girls are the tobacco industry’s dream come true. Take a look at the cigarette ads, and you will find that while young girls smoking is not portrayed, the ads often do show the kinds of women that the girls smoking want to become. While studies have revealed that boys who smoke are usually found on the social fringe of the peer group’s pecking order, a girl smoking is often found in the midst of the gaggle and also in the cliques. Mistakenly, girls smoking have associated the habit of lighting up a smoke with being accepted into the clique instead of realizing that it is the nervousness of being part of that peer group that has led other girls to smoke.

As a matter of fact, a smoking girl is often also an insecure and anxious girl. Not sure that she is fitting in, insecure about her looks and demeanor, and wanting to disappear into the background rather than sticking out, girls smoking cigarettes are looking for something to do with their hands, and smoking provides this distraction. Add to this the notion that girls inhaling smoke somehow look cool and grown up, and you can easily understand why an insecure child will grasp for any straw that will somehow help her to fit into the peer group with the least amount of ridicule.

Of course, there are also other reasons for girls smoking. Perhaps one of the most insidious reasons is the hard to eradicate myth that girls smoking cigarettes will be able to keep the weight off. School girls smoking have somehow bought into the idea that smoking is a form of weight management, and at a time in life when the baby fat is slowly melting off and the childlike features are being exchanged for the more grown up ones, this is a most attractive proposition. Teen girls smoke cigarettes because they either still fall for this myth or simply because at this point in the game they are hooked on nicotine and no longer have the ability to quit at will.

From cigarettes it is only a small step for girls smoking to also explore other inhalants. Girls smoking weed is a habit that is steadily increasing and for some peer groups it is almost akin to a rite of acceptance to have a girl smoking bong hits. Teen girls smoking marijuana will turn into college girls smoking pot, and pretty soon the teen girl smoking will become more adventurous and when other drugs, such as crack, are brought around and inhaled, it is only a small step to take to exchange tobacco smoke for crack smoke. Teen girl interviews have shown that smoking is so closely connected to peer-group behavior that the collective group think soon takes over the better judgment of the individual.