“…Both the latency to the first puff and subsequent progression to daily smoking are correlated with a variety of parameters, including gender [2], sociostructural [3] and socioeconomic [2,4-6] variables, early dating [7], personality variables [8], parental [9,10] and peer smoking [2,11], disorderly conduct [4-6,10], academic achievement [11], ethnicity [2], self-efficacy [2], mental health [4-6,12], religiosity [13], restaurant smoking restrictions [14], and use of other drugs [4,5,15]. In addition, several studies have postulated that progression to regular smoking is associated with a positive experience with the first cigarette.…”