Posted on 08/13/2006 7:05:24 PM PDT by at bay
Sex and the ciggie
If your teens watch "Sex and the City," the sex isn't the only thing you have to worry about. Virtually every teen girl interviewed as part of a new Health Department report on smoking said the show influenced their deadly habit.
"Whenever I think of how to smoke, it's the way Sarah Jessica Parker exhales, and I'm like obsessed," one 10th-grader said. "I love her, and the way she exhales is very memorable. She kind of ... elongates her neck and exhales into the air."
About 11% of teenagers smoke, according to the Health Department. The highest rates, about 35%, are among white girls.
Researchers ventured into a private high school and asked more than 30 middle and high school girls between the ages of 13 and 18 about smoking.
"Because smoking is a decision-making process at that age, we thought it would be interesting and important to find out how decisions get made," said Elizabeth Kilgore, a research scientist at the Health Department. "This does not represent all teenaged girls, but it's one more piece of the puzzle."
Some of the girls said they smoke because they think it makes them look sophisticated, while others say it helps them deal with stress. Some are afraid to stop because they think they will gain weight.
Kilgore said researchers were surprised to see how many girls view smoking as an accessory of sorts.
"It just goes with everything, you know, your perfectly polished hands," said an 11th-grader who smokes.
On the other hand, some of the girls said there is peer pressure to stay away from smoking.
One of the things all the girls - smokers and nonsmokers alike - agreed on was that they don't want to be preached to by adults about the issue.
"It's better for it to come from other kids," said a ninth-grader who doesn't smoke. "You don't want stupid videos about like peer pressure and stuff. You just need something that's not fake."
Gabz, you're right on target!
"I'm appalled at the level of insults hurled at poor Cindy Sheehan" --G
(Gabz without the abz)
Typical of your type...........taking only part of a statement and taking it out of context.
As you well know, my comment was in regard to those who stooped to the Cindy Sheehan level.........and even she is a few levels above you. And that says a great deal as I consider Sheehan lower than a snake's belly.
LINK please
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Sorry, haven't learned to link or ping. Look it up in the recent Sheehan threads and post it here for all of us, please. It's really the most pathetic post on any of the Sheehan threads.
Funny, her rank insults of me don't seem to strike a need for a response from you to her.
My daughter is 8, and her daddy and me, well we just have this attitude that there are things inapropriate for 8yo's.
She has actually come to me crying about an episode of Lassie.
You still remain a joke.
You started it.
You are the one that has the habit of rank insults without notifying (pinging) the person you are insulting.
You are just a downright insult to begin with, so I always direct mine to yours.
Compared to the vast majority of FReepers who understand the underlying issues, you are not only a rank amateur, you are a NOBODY.
So like every study, all research, the surgeon general, yada yada yada, everybody and their brother, including these researchers, have a predetermined agenda against smoking because they are nanny nino nahnahs or whatever that smoke is about?
I'm glad you brought down the whole anti-Sheehan threads, now everyone can see you for who you really are.
"Just so we know who's blowing smoke."
Oh there's no doubt about who's blowing smoke and I am a former smoker.
Please enlighten the rest of the thread as to what in heaven's name you are babbling about.
In other words.....talk..........
It's actually pretty pathetic watching these types, isn't ot?
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SNIFF, SNIFF, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
That's about the extent of your posting abilities.
Loser.
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