Rose grew up in a small town in Texas in the United States. She began smoking when she was just 13.

My mom had always told me, you know, quit smoking.

As a matter of fact, she said she was going to kill me if she caught me.

She'd steal cigarettes from her father and spend her lunch money on tobacco.

And every day, for the next 45 years she smoked two packets a day.

Then one morning her leg began to hurt. Her doctor told her she had a smoking related disease.

If she didn't stop smoking, he would have to amputate her foot.

She did stop. She saved her foot. She did stop. She saved her foot. But then the doctors discovered

something else. Lung cancer.

I had

surgery.

surgery. Recently I had two tumors in the brain

and then I had two tumors in the brain and then I had 14 treatments of radiation that just

finished. A lot of people think oh cancer is not going to happen to me, but look at myself, happen to me.

And it's not pretty, you know, it's not pretty.

It's not pretty.

Last year, Rose died, aged 60. Yet despite horrifying stories like these, despite all we know about the harmful effects of smoking and despite massive public health

campaigns to stamp it out about a billion people around the world smoke.

Why? This is the inquiry. I'm Sengita Myska and that's our question this week. Why does anyone still smoke? Part 1, the Addict. I was very anti-smoking until about the day I started in fact.

Our first expert witness is health psychologist Professor Robert West, author of a book called The Smoke Free Formula.

I smoked for a few years until I was in my second year at university and I might even be a smoker today if it weren't for my girlfriend at the time who really hated smoking and I can

certainly recommend girlfriend therapy as a way of helping to break the habit.

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