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Post by AnneM on Mar 10, 2004 13:13:24 GMT -5
Is smoking cigarettes amongst teenagers as common where you are as it is here in the UK? When I pick my son up from school it seems that a HUGE amount of the teenagers coming out of school all automatically light up! ... From where I am standing it seems that MOST teenagers are smoking (despite dire government warnings) ...
I know that the US in particular has become very anti-smoking and I am particularly wondering whether this has had an effect on the 'experimenting' teenage population?
Interestingly when I go to Europe (Germany in particular) smoking cigarettes appears to still be very much part of life ...
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Post by Linda on Mar 10, 2004 13:38:52 GMT -5
Yes I think it is as common here too Anne.Thank God Paul and his friends don't smoke....These kids have enough problems without adding smoking cigarettes...or worse!!
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Post by finnmom on Mar 10, 2004 15:06:18 GMT -5
Same here Anne  And what make´s me wonder, mostly girl´s smoke  I dont get it  Do you have a problem of this shewable tobacco-kind-a-like(sorry I dont know how to call it in english, George C on the "oh, brother... used it), seems to be a big hit amongs boy´s Marja |
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Post by AnneM on Mar 10, 2004 16:19:42 GMT -5
Ah Marja .. I DO know what you mean by the chewing tobacco ... although this doesn't SEEM to be very big here ... (but that might be the bit I don't see!!) ... I am also told that chewing tobacco is even more addictive than smoking it! ... Interesting too that you mention girls because this seems to be very much the same with alcohol and girls .. Sam tells me that when it comes to alcohol "girls just LOVE it" and given the opportunity they consume far more than the average male ... " Now I DO understand that we women tend to be much more "addictive" than men ...(i.e. when women take up a potentially addictive habit we become MORE addicted than men!) and maybe this is an example of this? .. Interesting...
Linda I am definitely interested that smoking is still common in the US ! .. It has always struck me that the US is SOOO much stricter on this than in Europe! ... which makes me wonder whether the stricter approach in fact makes no difference? .... Hmmmm again !!
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Post by anneke on Mar 12, 2004 6:12:05 GMT -5
In belgium it is verry common to smoke, I dont understand where all these kids get so manny money.
I never smoked, my brother does. my grandfather just died of lungcancer (from asbest) but he keeps doing it.
manny of them quit when they have to go work for there one money and realise that it is expensive.
there wher not many people in my highschool clas that didt smoke I gues it is easier to start smoking than here the coment every day becouse you dont do it.
anneke
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