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Published research studies have found that kids are three times more sensitive to tobacco advertising than adults and are more likely to be influenced to smoke by cigarette marketing than by peer pressure, and that one-third of underage experimentation with smoking is attributable to tobacco company advertising. ... However, will think that there will be significant political pressure put on the companies that MSDW follows to comply with the treaty to the extent that they are able, even if this puts them at a competitive disadvantage relative to smaller local emerging market companies that ar...
Exposure and peer pressure also have an effect on how people get started, but by controlling yourself in the early stages, you can defeat smoking before it even happens. ... Nicole Evans, from the Journal of National Cancer Institute said, "Tobacco marketing may be a stronger influence in encouraging adolescents to initiate the smoking uptake process than exposure to peer or family smokers." ...
Smoking Education Do you want to die? Do you want your children to experience early deaths? These questions run through my mind every time I witness people puffing away on their cigarettes. It genuinely hurts me to see parents (like my father) smoking around their children. As if this isn't ...
When you think of smoking, what do you see? A hot chick with blonde hair, smoking a Virginia Slim, making it look so cool? Well what she doesn't know is that every time she inhales, her risk for lung cancer and heart attacks goes up. The smoke she exhales is so dangerous that her friend next to her ...
Are Lawsuits Against Tobacco Companies Justified? A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more could one want? (qtd. in Hilts, 102). Statistics show that there have been 1.1 billion smokers in the past 90 years, making ...
Long-term heavy drinking increases the risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, some kinds of stroke, and cancer, especially cancer of the esophagus, mouth, throat, and voice box. ... Heavy smokers have nearly five times as many wrinkles as their non-smoking peers. ...