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Old 28-10-2005, 13:30   #406
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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by SlackDad
These stats only go to back up my previous point about making smoking more and more unattractive sometimes has the opposite effect, especially when in a rebelling mood, i.e many teenagers. Think of the times trying to sneak a quick ciggie at school without being caught for instance.

Another very salient point. While in Europe and the USA the tobacco comapnies are finding it harder and harder to ply their trade, they don't just disappear. Rather they move to developing areas of the world where perhaps the effects are not so widely publicised or the health infrastructures not in place to advise and support. So a perceived benefit here may be having a detrimental effect elsewhere.
I think this arises from the duplicity of the messages that teens are hearing. On one hand they hear adults say you must not smoke you are under 16, it's bad for you. On the other hand they see adults go into pubs, get drunk and smoke their heads off. That makes it attractive.
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