This is what I always thought of anti-drug ads as well. The people who make these ads are oblivious to the facts. The video is here and the column is here.
True. I read a website which said: "If you stop smoking now, in 48 hours, all the nicotine will have been naturally removed from your blood..." While it was actually meant to motivate people to quit, it made a non-smoker like me think, "well, it doesnt sound too bad does it?"
I started smoking when I was 14 but it wasn't because of any ads. It was becuase all my friends were doing it. I thought it was the cool thing to do at the time now 25 years later I wish I could give them and myself a good kick in the ass.
I'm 15 at the moment, and I know 100% that I will not be smoking ever. I can't handle smelling the smoke.
kids are gonna smoke no matter what becuase they think its cool. 99% of middle schoolers have puffed a square.
I was the same at 14. And then I started to go out, bars, parties, clubs. I smoked from 14 to 20. I have almost 4 years since I quit, I can't say that I miss it, but also I don't regret it. Lighting a cigarette after a good meal was great.
those kind of age will try and against anything they can see. like parent school, laws and such. the most stop it has the more they would like to try. that's why family education is very important for those kind of kids.
I'm 17, and I cant stand smoking, I hate it when you walk past someone down the street who is smoking, and breathe it in by accident Also I watched a video a year ago, which scared quite a few people in my class away from the idea of smoking ... It was of video of a woman who could hardly talk, because she had part of her throat and mouth taken out, and she was in hospital ... yet she was still smoking.
I really hope the ones saying they'll never smoke will do that , the things that gets teens to smoke is seeing their idol smoking , or some actor they like , and they start to think it's cool even without noticing that this is the reason , but it is , so don't get fooled and just act like what you see on tv and think it's cool.
i took 1 puff on a ciggy and it made me sick on my foot, and i aint used drugs, so i dont think the ads do it, it is pressure from friends, thats who made me take a puff of a ciggy
Same, I don't really have any idols. So I am my own idol. Some of my friends smoke, I never tried and probably never will.