On the old days, cigarette smoking was considered to be a rite of passage and as such should be permitted to any young boy on the threshold of becoming a man. While it might be true that in some instances smoking cigarettes is associated with being grown up, the cold reality dictates that there is nothing in cigarette smoke that speeds along the aging process of the child or teen that uses them. Instead, the only things sped along are the negative effects of smoking cigarettes which can begin to take hold even in someone who is young and supposedly at the beginning of the habit. Sure, cigarette smoking effects do not show up in someone as young as 13 or 18, but in some of these youngsters the seeds of negative effects of smoking cigarette prod