Youth Not heeding antismoking messages
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Youth Not Heeding Antismoking Messages Tiffany Stilwagon
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Teenagers now-a-days have misperceptions about smoking. They think smoking is okay if they smoke light cigarettes. They believe that there are less harmful side effects with light cigarettes. They believe this because that's how people market the cigarettes. Even though they market them as "safer" they really aren't, they have no proof that they are safer. Teens also think that smoking light cigarettes is a beginning to end.
Most teens are "social smokers". They don't do it when there alone for no reason. This part time habit usually turns into a full fledge addiction to cigarettes...