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Posted by Pete on April 4, 2007, 3:02 pm, in reply to "A Few Hypotheses" Some interesting points as always I agree up to a point but bare in mind when most smokers start in their late teens there are many motivations ´badness´ certainly, image, curiosity, trying to appear more adult, peer pressure, rebelisness, perceived sophistication etc. But risk and danger? I´m not so sure? At that point there is no risk or danger. At that stage they really wont come to any harm. The risk and danger will only come much, much further down the line. Most at this stage cant really envision themselves in their thirties or forties when of course the risk and dangers start to become much more relevant after years of continued consumption and they certainly cant envision themselves with any smoking related disease. I think this has even been addressed in anti campaigns. Where they have now changed tact, rather than showing graphically what might happen in what for them is some íntangible distant ´ future´ they now concentrate on issues much more ´relevant´ and ´now´ such as smell, bad breath and undermining the ´coolness´ factor in the peer group. Where is the risk and danger in the mind of an average seventeen year old smoker? Also take into account many think they will have quit before they even reach their thirties then surely in their minds where is the danger, risk, edge? Can that really be taken as a motivation for starting and continuing to smoke? Could it be your applying YOUR mindset to the general smoking population? In this community we all do it. I´m guilty myself. Surely those starting down the path looking for danger, risk, excitement could find much stronger outlets. Could it be that that with smoking they are not looking for those elements at all? At least not in a cigarette? Cheers
Hello again,
Pete
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