at least we could do stop selling alcohol and tobacco to under 20 year old, and stop advertizing for it in open of hidden form. Statistics show very clearly that the probability to turn a person beyond the age of 18, 19, 20, into a smoker if he/she has not smoked before, falls dramatically, the risk is less than a fifth, compared to teenagers. If that is for physiological or changed social-cultural variables, is unimportant. This is also the reason why the young ones are so heavily targetted by advertizing for smoking, and why they are given so many smoking idols in adverts. the industry knows very well that it must have turned them into addicts before reaching that critical age, if it wants to secure them as customers for a lifetime.
I call it brutal and inhumane child abuse, and cigarette companies are criminals and dealers, hurting and killing our families. How else could you call turning youngsters into addicts, selling them poison and making them becoming ill and dying earlier than necessary for profit?
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