[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Nanny State PING!

[xtinct]

teen point of view —> * banning a product * * putting a legal age on it * etc. makes it sexy to use those products

[nascarnation]

Who wouldn't want to be on the Choom Gang?

[Lazamataz]

Edelman said the solution may be pocketbook-based. “Kids are prone to risky behavior because they feel immortal. The most tried-and-true method, especially with adolescents, is to raise the price of cigarettes."

Right, because kids can't afford expensive things.

Like cocaine, marijuana, Ipads and cars.

Effin' moneygrabbing moron is all this guy is.

[Drango]

The most tried-and-true method, especially with adolescents, is to raise the price of cigarettes.

Largely 'cause adults have turned a blind eye to the addiction of youth, society will continue to vote to increase the cost of smoking. Bummer.

ECON 101 still wins. An increase in the price of an item, will decrease demand.

[Brookhaven]

I always viewed the students that smoked as the stupid kids.

My opinion hasn’t changed much over the years.

[dfwgator]

Maybe they realize if they smoke, they can grow up to become President.

[9YearLurker]

That certainly wasn’t the case in my school.

I suppose we also had virtually zero Hispanic population.

[discostu]

The harder they try to make it cool to not smoke the cooler it will be to smoke. Teenagers have a natural rebellious instinct. They should start handing out free smokes for good grades, that would make it nerdy to smoke and kids won’t want to.

[TigersEye]

• Smokers Are Still High School’s ‘Cool Kids,’ Study Finds
• "...The most tried-and-true method, especially with adolescents, is to raise the price of cigarettes.”
• The average price of a pack of cigarettes in 1955 was $.23 cents.
• The average price in 2012 is $5.71.

One of these statements stands out like a steaming pile of horse manure. LOL

[PeterPrinciple]

Popularity is a strong predictor of smoking,”

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What if they have it wrong? Smoking is a predictor of popularity.............................

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“Kids today are trying to be ‘cool’. What they would call ‘groovy’ in their psychedelic lingo. When they and their ‘hip’ friends go to an Occupy protest, they spend their time sipping lattes, eating croissants and talking about their newfangled ‘video games’. They aren’t tough. They don’t know what tough is.

“Back in my day in the riots of the 1960’s, we knew what tough was. And during out protests, all we had to eat was the cold stench of mild discomfort, washed down with restroom sink water!”

[dsrtsage]

When I first moved up to Nevada for school, cloves were all the rage (and this is college kids not high school kids). It seemed every single kid in the state smoked them. It was not legal to sell them in Nevada. So the cool thing to do was to drive to California and stock up on them.

Not so long afterward, cloves were made legal to sell in the state of Nevada, and almost overnight kids stopped smoking them.

Any lesson there?

[ichabod1]

Valente said kids need to be told that the tobacco industry is manipulating them to smoke, “since teenagers don’t like to be manipulated.”

Then maybe they ought to consider that teenagers don't like being manipulated by THEM.

I hate public health nazis.