Peer pressure has a significant influence on adolescent cigarette smoking. Many organizations claim that anti-snuff habit teens start smoking because of pressure, and cultural influence represented by friends. However, one study found that direct pressure to smoke cigarettes did not play an important role in adolescent smokers. In this study, teens also low levels of direct regulatory pressure and smoke cigarettes. A similar study showed that individuals play a more active role in smoking initiation has already been acknowledged and that social processes other than peer pressure need to be taken into account. Results of another study revealed that peer pressure was significantly associated with smoking behavior in all age groups and gender, but that intrapersonal factors were significantly more important for the behavior of smokers aged 12 to 13 years old , girls, children of the same age. In the age group 14-15 years of age, a variable of peer pressure emerged as a more important indicator of girls than boys smoking. It is debated whether peer pressure or self-selection is a major cause of adolescent smokers. It is arguable that the reverse peer pressure is true, when most of his peers do not smoke and ostracize those who do.
