8/13/2019 Why Do Teens Take to Smoking

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'E,..NOUGH..e.,rin.t~g~ ..,.h..t'S~iU., ...,;mdy .bOOn poured intopubUc.interestads, articlesan4~torywarnings so that ev-eryone - right from th~person,'who is ~mthe verge of startiJig to'one. who lias' already made. it ahatiit - is aware that cigarette

. smokingisinjuiio~ tohealth.What makes one a die-hardSlpoker is~a question best left..to, sPecialists to figureontl attempt~ed to find out what attracts teen-agers into the smoking habit byhavitlg a man-to-man talk witha few ofthem.To my astonishment, it was notfor pleasure or relaxation or any-thing ofthat soft as proclaimed bythe cigarette advertisers that gotthese boys into the smo~ habit.~ Neither~re t}u yignorant~fth.,fact

.that .it. was a slow p.oisoilnorwas it deliberate negligence oftheir health that made them con-tinue with.this habit.'Some 'boys' said they started.

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