Folder "Quit Smoking" tobacco industry manipulates young

Simply go to the output of a college or school to realize: Young easily fall into the trap of tobacco! Explanations.

"But I know I can stop when I want, when I am pregnant for example, in a decade." Mathilde, 16 years, feels stronger than tobacco. According to him, it would not snag the cigarette does not perform any dependency on it. However, her boyfriend does not seem to agree. "She said that, but when she has no time to smoke a cigarette before the first class in the morning, she freaking! For her, it is a drug!"

The tabacologues and pulmonologists are unanimous: the tobacco industry manipulates youth, and has been for years. Teenagers love to break taboos. Smoking is gained independence, it is back in the big leagues. Unlike the United States or Canada, France, the tobacco is not denormalized, which opens the door to all kinds of excesses. However, they should know that first cigarette is a trap: the more you smoke, the sooner it is sensitive to the action of nicotine (ie dependent).

And handling goes a long way. Cigarettes sweets (chocolate, strawberry, caramel, etc..), The menthols, hookah, for example, are not seen as tobacco itself and particularly attractive to young people.

Advertising campaigns and awareness beautiful tobacco multiply, their effect is limited. Probably because young people do not plan to in the future as adults do. Talking descancers or diseases they could contract to 40 years, it does not interest them. They live in the present and the very near future.

Finally, perhaps he should tell them about the immediate risks to distract them from the cigarette. Tarnishing of the skin, bad breath, yellow teeth for girls. Impotence for boys. Whatever, just does not seem to impress Cédric, 17: "It is what they tell us to scare us. But I do not believe all these warnings. I'm not m stop smoking to please my parents or my teachers. The only thing that could make me stop smoking, this is the price of packages. " Admittedly, this is not the best argument, but it will have to do ...