http://www.winternet.com/~terrym/quitsmoke.html
http://www.ymn.org/tobacco/youth.rates.shtml
Did you know that
over 400,000 people die from smoking related diseases each year? I believe that most of this is caused because
there are so many advertisements out
there for tobacco! Right now, it is only
illegal to promote tobacco on the telivision. They allow tobacco to be promoted
anywhere else. There should be a law that states that tobacco ads are illegal,
anywhere! There are just too many people
dieing from a drug that has no positives to it.
Among
infants to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as
300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. Smoking is a problem in
the World that needs to be stopped. I
think that if all the advertisements with all the, "beautiful people"
promoting tobacco would stop, then the percentage of smokers would go down
significantly!
Smoking ads are
just about everywhere! In each ad they
only show pretty people. There is not
one ad out there that shows what a person would really look like if they
smoked. Smoking causes aging, yellow teath,
yellow fingers, perminate smoke
stench, and many other negatve things.
There should be alot more ads out there that show the harms tobacco can
do. Smoking can do so much damage to the
human body. You can get lung ,mouth, nose and
throat,larynx , oesophagus,Pancreas,Bladder,Stomach,Myeloid
leukaemia, and Kidney cancer from smoking. There are many, many more diseases you can get from smoking. More than 50% of adolescents age 12-13
think there are benefits to smoking.
There are so many people out there that don't know the real risk of
smoking! The smoking ads need to stop
and more ads need to be presented on the harms of smoking.
Students who owned cigarette
promotional items are more than 4 times more likely to be smokers compared with
those who did not own cigarette promotional items. Students in grades 6-9 who
own cigarette promotional items are, on average, further along the smoking
uptake process compared with those who do not own such items. Students wearing and using cigarette
promotional items in schools heightens the perception of approval of tobacco
use by peers and promotes smoking as normative behavior. According to
estimates, the tobacco industry spends $14 million per day on advertising and
promotion. Among children aged 10 and 11
years over 80% of them believe that cigarette advertising probably encourages
children to start smoking.
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