It is common knowledge that nicotine does much harm to the woman's looks and health. Still, not every woman can curb the nicotine addiction though there exist a great number of methods to fight it. Sometimes Russian women justify their smoking by saying that it seems to keep them from getting stout. At the same time, it has been proved that the female organism is injured by smoking to a greater extent than the male's one. The most horrible feature of the Russian reality is that the number of smoking girls and women is increasing while the number of smoking men has dropped, thus indicating their genuine interest in the healthy way of life.

Why does a Russian woman smoke knowing what it will result in? Let us name the most typical reasons:
- a desire to look like her female friends;
- an orientation on the western cinema woman-hero type;
- a way to fight extra kilos;
- a way to relax;
- a desire to look cool;
- a desire to have equal rights with men.