Quit smoking Smoking is bad for your health. Currently, everyone knows that althougth only twenty years ago it was socially accepted. You could smoke in the office, in a bus, a plane, or a restaurant. You could smoke in front of a child, and his parents would accept it naturally. That has changed. Nowadays smoking is considered a very harmful habit. You would be fined if you dared to smoke at work, or in most of public spaces. Smoking in front of a child is considered a censurable act and doing it would bring you a lot of problems. In my opinion althought the governments collect huge amounts of money from tobacco taxes, they have noticed that healthcare costs due to tobacco comsumption are even bigger. That is why they have decided to encourage the people to quit smoking, or not to start in the case of the youth. So if you want to smoke, you should do it alone at home, while you can.