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How to stop your teen from smoking
Filed under: Teens, Development/Milestones: Babies
Here's a disturbing statistic: Over 4,000 teenagers start smoking a day.While that number is disturbing, there's hope. A new study suggests that teenagers who are savvy to pro-smoking messages in movies and media may reduce their chances of starting to smoke.
According to the study, teens that are exposed to smoking ads are more likely to start smoking during their adolescence than those who aren't exposed to the ads.
The study suggests that although factors such as parental smoking and the "thrill seeking" mentality are major influences for starting to smoke, teaching a teen to decipher the ads may help stop.
Personally, I have never smoked a cigarette, something I thank my Mom for. (She was always very anti-smoking and lighting up was never a possibility in my house.) If you smoked, why did you start? If not, what kept you from picking up the habit?
Is there something more we could be doing to stop teens from smoking?
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10-21-2006 @ 4:49PM
Sean said...I think that to get teens to stop smoking,, you haved to eliminate smokers from there life,,, if a teen grows up with people who smoke,,and even though they mite not like smoking or even the smell of smoke,,there more tempted to do,,, its especially when your parents smoke,, my parents didnt smoke,, but my brother and sister do,,im a teenager and i started smoking on and off when i was 13,, but now i quit,, i hated the smell,the taste, but i loved the buzz,,I didnt do it to look cool,, I did it for the buzz and the rush you get when you know your doing something that you arent supposed to be doing until your older,,,, im 16, and when i have kids, im gonna try and do a better job of not getting them to smoke....
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10-23-2006 @ 11:10AM
HeatherR said...I came from a very anti-smoking household. I heard all the warnings and lectures on health, cost, etc. I was a three-sport high school athlete and a member of my high school's anti-drinking and drug club.
Yet I RAN to the mini-mart with the Get-One-Pack-Free Capri coupon. I hid my smoking from my friends for two years (until hitting college) and my family for eight years (got busted right before my wedding by mom - heartbreaking).
During this same period, my two closest friends were raised in smoking households. Neither of them ever smoked.
While exposure to smoking, whether it be through advertising or environment, certainly has something to do with becoming a future smoker, I do think some people are more likely to engage is "risky" behavior than others.
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