Chapter 15 Children and teen smoking

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The weight control theme of cigarette ads plays into the preoccupation of many

teenage girls with thin figures. Mistys are "slim and sassy", and a Virginia Slims ad

says, " If I ran the world, calories wouldn't count."

Consumer Reports, March 1995, p. 143

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Adolescents who begin to smoke share the risk factors of low socioeconomic status,

poor school achievement, excessive rebelliousness and risk-taking, low self-esteem,

dropping out of school, and not planning to go to college.

Consumer Reports, March 1995, p. 145

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An expert panel from the National Academy of Sciences recommends three major

strategies to reduce the number of young people who begin to smoke: ban nearly all

cigarette advertising and promotion, raise cigarette taxes to make smoking less

affordable, and enforce laws against selling to minors.

Consumer Reports, March 1995, p. 146

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An estimated 1.6 million children ages 12 to 17 are on tobacco company mailing lists

for promotional items.

Tobacco Free Youth Reporter, Spring 1995

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"Of all the things that will confuse historians of the next century, certainly the idea of a

lethal product, a product of illness and despair, peddled to youngsters for the profit of

the peddler, will be the most confusing."

William Forge, Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Tobacco or Health,

Buenos Aires, 1992

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