The most fascinating activity to the adolescent girls these days is said to be smoking. Since 1990, girls have consistently surpassed the boys in smoking. The gap had been increasing by 10% by 2004. Around 26% girls in their teens smoked whereas only 16% boys smoked in their comparison and the number was increasing each year.

The girls are since a decade being attracted to the charms of tobacco. As per a team of researchers, the girls adapted the habit of smoking so as to give a strong blow to the typical feminine identity. Moreover, the tobacco companies use the gloomy advertisement techniques to promote smoking among people; such advertisements are believed to attract girls. The adolescent girls were inclined to the flattery and enticements of the tobacco industry. Even the You-Tube was flooded with advertisements of adolescent girls taking up smoking.

The tobacco industry has targeted the utmost weakness among women that is weight; the companies create a notion that tobacco made them slim. A succession of studies have found that smoking positions you in a group of "top girls" – high-status, popular, fun-loving, rebellious, confident, cool party-goers who project self-esteem (not, of course, the same as actually having it). Non-smokers are mostly seen as more sensible and less risk-taking.