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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (481098)	5/15/2009 12:29:22 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

"By leaving it up to the kid, the kid is much more likely to think about it and the consequences..........much like you did." Kids internalize community values. It did no good to tell kids of the forties and fifties, smoking was bad for them. It was cool, the movies said so, the adult role models demonstrated it and the culture of coke and smoke proved to them that it was rewarding. Why offer an education at all, if we are just going to let kids think about things and the consequences to determine their path in life. They will think that joining gangs to bully other kids and take what ever they want by force works. It worked for the Spartans. Just throw them to the dogs and let them figure it out. Why would they think otherwise? They would think otherwise if guided by responsible adults who model and encourage noble endeavor for good and conscionable purposes.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (481098)	5/15/2009 4:21:21 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574005

Ted, > By leaving it up to the kid, the kid is much more likely to think about it and the consequences..........much like you did. I think I would prefer both the presentation of the consequences AND a moral message. "Don't smoke. It's not worth it." Yes, but you probably were not the type of kid who would have smoked in the first place. I think the best method is to show kids the impact that years of smoking has on the human body. Nothing more effective than the woman from CA who speaks thru a hole in her throat and who then proceeds to smoke through that hole as well. Had I been smoking when I first so that commercial I would have quit within the hour. There was an article in Men's Health about a former exec in the tobacco industry who was in charge of trying to market the product. He was supposed to go out and find out why people love smoking so much. Well to make a long story short, everyone he talked to said the same thing. They HATE it. It wasn't too long afterwards that he quit his job and began a program to quit smoking himself. A message like that would resonate much more than cold medical info. Agreed.