The smoking of cigarettes (1) many people had become deeply involved in such guilty feelings. The (2) had been generated (3) part presumably because the smoking habit had been sternly repressed in their childhood, and (4) from their very genuine suspicion (5) cigarettes were coffin nails.
The investigators found about a dozen reasons (6) many people continue to smoke (7) their guilty feelings about the (8) ; they smoke to relieve tension, to express sociability, as an aid in anticipating stress, (9) it is an accustomed ritual, and so on. They found that many people like to have a (10) in their fingers when enter a roomful of people (11) it makes them seem less nervous, (12) sophisticated.
Perhaps the major discovery of the investigators, (13) is that Americans (14) to prove they are people of manly maturity. They see smoking as proving their vigor and potency.
Young people who smoke are trying to be (15) ; and older people who smoke are trying to be younger! The true idealized smoker in this misty mythology is in the prime of (16) Thus adolescents know they have to be "old (17) to smoke"; and (18) they are caught smoking the s may say, "Oh, the kids just want to be grown up." At the same time (19) is a faint color of disapproval of older women smoking. A psychologist reports that one subject interviewed, in commenting (20) the smoking of an older woman acquaintance, exclaimed: "Oh, she just wants to be a young chicken.\