Sentence examples for picked up smoking from inspiring English sources

"We expected this trend would happen in women because we saw the pattern in men, and women picked up smoking cigarettes a little later".

This time, he picked up smoking in earnest.

So I needed something else to do that maybe wasn't so harmful, and I picked up smoking weed.

"Get a last-minute spray tan and act like you picked up smoking so that you don't always get booted to the back seat on the way to cheerleading practice".--Stephanie Gruender, Adult Program Manager/Producer of House Ensembles.

After an outcry, tobacco companies attempted damage control by promoting curriculums to public schools promising, among other things, to teach kids to wait until they were adults to decide if they wanted to pick up smoking.

The cost of cigarette is so cheap, cheaper than confectionery, and so as a result, many young kids pick up smoking as early as age 9.

In fact, they usually do not try them again and there is even some evidence that this may protect them from picking up smoking," said Professor Peter Hajek, director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London.

While critics of the ban say e-cigarettes are harmless to bystanders and argue the change will make it more difficult for smokers who use e-cigarettes to help them quit smoking traditional cigarettes, others in support of the ban say it will dissuade more people from picking up smoking in the first place.

Large proportions of teens in Asian countries, especially boys, pick up smoking as a part of normal behaviour associated with their transition to adulthood.

Their responses include picking up smoking due to peer-pressure; due to family members smoking; due to the influence of tobacco company advertisements or due to tragic events happening in their lives (29– 31).

It is therefore possible that more participants made short-lived changes in smoking and alcohol consumption that were not picked up.