If smoking is so bad for you, who still does it?(#13)

It is pretty commonly known knowledge that smoking greatly increases you risk of getting lung cancer, emphysema,chronic bronchitis, and a lot of other health issues. But if you think about how much we hear about how bad smoking is and what it does to you you still see people on the street corners smoking, i recently read an article called 'If smoking is so bad for you, who still does it?' by Andrea M. Kane on cnn.com. It talked about how all we hear about smoking is how bad it is but there are still people smoking, it explains the main demographic of those people and why6 they do it. They talked about how as level of education increases there are less and less people smoke, a lot of smokers who are older started when it was the norm to smoke and no one knew how bad it was. They talked about people recalling how there were ash trays in church pews and you could smoke in the delivery room after giving birth to a baby. The article also talked about although it is viewed as something severely challenged people do even former presidents and our future president all smoke. I thought this was a great article because it made sense to me that why are people still smoking if it costs so much and you know how bad it is for you.
link to article: cnn.com