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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: mph who wrote (27020)8/23/2006 10:18:06 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 541487
 
I think cartoon smoking probably has a huge effect at least on a subliminal level, preparing the ground for later smoking. The cuter and more familiar you make smoking, the more likely kids are to do it. What's cuter than a cartoon?

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Did you see this one? You think children are less easily influenced than teens?

commonsensemedia.org

"Of every 100 adolescents who tried smoking, 38 did so because they saw smoking portrayed in movies, said the report published in the November issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics"
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