An Attributional Basis for Evaluating the Concept of Free will of Young Smokers

Each year millions of young Americans aged between the ages of 18 to 24 years start smoking. Only 5% of these smokers are expected to live to the ripe old age of 50 (CDC, USA). This is largely because nicotine, one of the many chemicals present in cigarettes, produces a compulsive need to continuously use the substance. Most individuals believe that they can easily quit smoking before it produces an harm (Ho, 1988); but this is often a mirage