1. Because peer pressure is widely considered the major factor that starts kids smoking, learning how to identify and resist it is a most valuable asset. 2. According to statisticians, too many kids are smoking marijuana in the sixth grade and are more sexually active than their rat-raced, stressed-out parents. 3. But all the college kids smoked during those days. 4. If coolness is everything, then it follows that the only way to get kids to not smoke is to make smoking not cool. 5. Kids have smoked like chimneys for at least several generations. 6. Kids get other kids to smoke. 7. Kids should not smoke. 8. Many kids smoked cigarettes. 9. Nearly half the first cigarettes smoked by kids came from their parents, Glantz said. 10. The federal statistics agency survey reinforced several theories about why kids smoke. |