True Smoking Facts – Adolescents Pick Up on Adults’ Behavior

Adolescents Pick Up on Adults’ Behavior – Even the Bad Stuff!

Anyone who has a child or who is familiar with children knows that they love to mimic the adults around them. From the time they are babies, they copy their parents voice, gestures, facial expressions, and even use the same words and phrases.

And sometimes this can be a problem, if the behavior they’re mimicking is a particular bad habit such as smoking! Unfortunately, adolescents are continuing to smoke, just as they see the adults do, in record numbers every year – a true smoking fact!

It’s estimated that some 8,000 children under 18 begin regular smokers every year; about 90% of smokers begin before they’re 21 years of age. In a recent survey of high school students, approximately 28% of them admitted to smoking regularly. Smokers are also very young; 5.5% of 8th graders (13-year-olds) smoke cigarettes daily.

It is also estimated that at least 4.5 million U.S. adolescents are cigarette smokers; that’s the equivalent of the population of the state of Alabama. If current tobacco use patterns persist, an estimated 6.4 million children will die prematurely from a smoking-related disease.

Most adolescents who are asked about their smoking habits admit that they would like to quit smoking but have a hard time doing so. Many have just as hard a time quitting as do those who have been long-time smokers.

Virtually any parent will say that if they knew of something that was of a particular danger to their child, they would respond quickly and decisively. Parents are even known to sue school districts and public buildings when it’s found out that they have been unsafe for their children, whether because of lead paint, asbestos, or poor air quality. Caring parents learn how to buckle their children safely in a car seat and make sure they have on a warm coat when going outside; they teach them not to talk to strangers and to look both ways before crossing the street. Again, it seems that most parents are very concerned for their child’s health, safety, and well-being.

And yet, here is a very dangerous habit of adults that so many children are copying. When a child sees an adult smoking and acting as if it’s cool, sexy, fashionable, or a great stress-reliever, how can the child be expected to do anything but pick up the same habit?

If you smoke and you have children, it’s time for you to stop, not just for your own health, but for the health of your children as well. You can set a better example for them, you can quit now, today!

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Smoking Facts – Dollars And Sense

How Would You Like $2,500 In Your Pocket Right Now?

I know what you’re thinking; “What’s the catch?” What do you need to sell, what do you need to invest up front, what vital organ is this person after?

Yes–there is a small catch, but no–it doesn’t involve selling, investing, and it actually means saving your vital organs, not giving them up. For $2,500, are you willing to read further?

Here is one fact about smoking. Today, the average price of cigarettes is about $3.50 per pack in the U.S. There’s typically 20 cigarettes per pack.

Now, how much do you smoke every day? If you’re a “light” smoker, meaning half a pack per day, you’ll spend over $630 per year for cigarettes. For many people, that’s two car payments, or a month’s worth of groceries for the family!

If you’re a moderate smoker at a pack a day, that’s $1260 per year. Now we’re talking an entire month’s apartment rent, or 2 or 3 months’ worth of gas in the car, or the price of a very nice flat-screen television.

And for two-packs-per-day smokers, the price per year is over $2,500. Think about that amount for a moment – two thousand, five hundred dollars! Repeat it in your head over and over, and imagine what you could do right now– today–with two thousand, five hundred dollars.

Of course, it’s somewhat tough to think of that amount adding up over the course of a year since that’s a long time to wait for money, so think of it in monthly terms. For a half a pack a day, that’s over $50 per month; for a pack a day, that’s over $100 per month, and for two packs a day, that’s $210 per month.

What would you do with that extra money? Pay off credit card bills, put gas in your car, or go out to dinner more often? $50 per week may be close to a tank of gas for many, so even light smokers are hurting themselves financially by tossing their money away – should we say, putting it up in smoke.

The money, of course, is just one option to the benefits of quitting smoking. That money adds up month after month, year after year, and could be better used for so many other things.

So in reality, someone really is offering you $2,500; as a matter of fact, you already have it, you just need to keep it rather than throw it away on cigarettes!

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