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Randall
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Date Posted: 22:49:22 05/08/07 Tue
Whatever your reason for keeping your smoking mostly to yourself, it's probably a good idea. If you smoke mainly to impress others your age, you'll mainly end up impressing people who you don't want to impress in the first place. I'm assuming here that you are an intelligent young woman who has no interest in being pointlessly rebellious or engaging in other kinds of "bad" behavior. Unfortunately, the majority of people your age who smoke probably do so for all the wrong reasons. Don't ditch your non-smoking friends in order to find a bunch of new smoking friends, because most of them are likely to be bad news in other ways.
One of these days, you'll be able to reveal to good, solid friends that while you are a responsible, mature, level-headed person, you also enjoy smoking occasionally. In that case, they may not react as badly as you think, because they will already know what kind of person you are. Instead of changing their opinion of you, they might be more likely to change their opinion of smoking, at least a little bit.
You may also find that the first people you feel comfortable smoking with are adults who are also well-adjusted, mature people you can deal with on an adult level. They might be people you work with in a job, or older students in college, for instance. You won't be trying to impress them, and they won't be showing off for you. That's the best part of smoking, in my opinion. There's plenty of time for that to happen naturally. Meanwhile, enjoy!
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