Word: smoked
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...course, almost all parents, including those who smoke, have lectured kids on the evils of tobacco. But we forget that teenagers think they're bulletproof. Not even ads trumpeting the risks of impotence from smoking have much effect on hormone-crazed 14-year-old boys. Besides, the tobacco industry has subtly and successfully portrayed smoking--in the face of known health dangers and parental disapproval--as defiant and therefore cool...
...being turned against it in a way that gives parents new hope. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts studied teens over a period of five years as the state tested a new, edgy antismoking media blitz. The ads were designed not to educate teens about the health risks of smoking (they already know about that) but instead to show them that there is another group of powerful adults, in addition to their parents and teachers, that is trying to tell teens what to think about tobacco. These ads give kids a look at the cynical manipulation behind the targeting...
Experts caution that tobacco companies "brand" potential young consumers with product giveaways such as hats and T shirts, and that kids who own this merchandise (even if they don't yet smoke) are three times as likely as other kids to try cigarettes. So parents who don't want their kids using tobacco should be wary of any product plastered with tobacco logos...
Parents who smoke can be certain that antitobacco lectures will fall on deaf ears. If you don't want your kid to smoke, you have to quit. Seventy-five percent of the 4 million teen smokers come from homes where a parent smokes--a reminder that kids look to their parents as role models, for better or for worse...
Anyone who wants to return to party bosses in back rooms (smoke filled or otherwise) selecting the nominee should vote for Bush. This campaign is mostly about control. Pick the candidates, flood 'em with squashing amounts of money and send 'em forth. Round up the cadre to provide a flying wedge. Anyone not on board had better consider himself dead meat as far as the party is concerned. George W. Bush is merely the cover boy in this campaign; the Republican Party bosses are the real candidates. DAN THOMPSON Elgin...