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Posted by Pete on April 5, 2007, 10:47 am, in reply to "The Result of Different Levels of Awareness" Some interesting counter views to be sure. On some points we are always going to differ but thats always what makes it interesting to explore. But here is one other consideration to take into account in your hypothesis. If you consider risk, and danger as a prime motivation or even a subconsious one in smoking, then what of eras gone by? If we head back to the forties, fifties and even sixties, very much golden ages of smoking. Many many women and men smoked and of course in these eras the health message was virtually unknown, in fact in some cases cigarettes were even endoresd by Doctors. Cigarettes were percieved in a very positive light, indeed for a woman of those eras it was entirely natural to smoke. Smoking was very popular and this danger risk element wasn’t really part of the equation and yet in those eras smoking was still associated with sophstication, glamour, femme fatale etc etc. Yes of course even without the hard sell anti message in those times a smoker would feel the effects of their habit of that I don’t deny, but bare in mind in those eras smoking was just as accepatble as having a cup of coffee is today. You could smoke everywhere and anywhere. Smoking was very appealing and that was without any relation to associations of danger, risk and the stigmas that we have today. Do you see where I´m going with this? Smoking was just as appealing even when the danger and risk element of today was unknown or at the very least severly downplayed in society unlike today. In those eras smoking wasn’t percieved as it is today with all the negative health associations etc but if anything was even more popular. Cheers Pete
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