Why do men smoke in their 30’s?

The impact of smoking cannabis varies from person to person depending on their health status, gender, and AGE. Smoking weed in your early 20s is very different from smoking weed in your 30s 40s 50s and sometimes beyond that.

Smoking cigarettes has an adverse impact on health. As the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States, cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths every year. Smokers live 10 years less than non-smokers, on average. Currently, more than 16 million Americans live with a disease caused by smoking.

Greatest Differences in Smoking, Vaping Behaviors by Age, Income, Education

Although vaping is much less common than conventional cigarette smoking, Americans who smoke or vape are more likely to have lower annual household incomes and lower educational attainment (high school or less). Twenty-eight percent of both lower-income adults and those with a high school education or less smoke cigarettes, and 10% of each group vapes.

Vaping is most popular with young adults aged 18-29, while conventional smoking is most popular with those aged 30-64. Young Americans are slightly more likely to say they vape (17%) than smoke conventional cigarettes (14%), while those in all other major demographic groups are more likely to smoke cigarettes than vape.

Given all the effects—why do smokers still smoke? Here are the reasons why:

Feeling good

Relaxation

Medical uses

Inspiration

New ways of looking at things

Coping with depression and anxiety

Forgetting one’s worries

Enjoyment of movies or music

Better sleep

Coping with boredom

In short, knowing that someone uses cannabis—or even has developed cannabis use disorder (i.e., marijuana addiction)—tells us very little about why they began taking marijuana or what factors have encouraged and supported their drug use. To put it another way, we need to get to know them as individuals in order to understand why they use cannabis.