What methods do tobacco companies use to encourage underage youth to begin smoking and to continue once they start?
1) Glamorize by using actors and models in cool, extreme, etc. scenes. 2) Parking “give-away” packs in accessible places in stores. These packs are meant to be stolen and are replenished free by tobacco companies. 3) Promotion of “Gear” which is targeted at young kids who are creating their identities around clothes. 4) Spit is marketed first as candy then in increasing doses of nicotine. 5) Nicotine is of course highly addictive which “locks in” smokers. 6) Nicotine is a drug and will produce feelings of euphoria or “high” and acts as strongly as heroin does on the pleasure centers of the brain. 7) Cigarettes are advertised as relaxing when in fact they are only helping the user with their withdrawal symptoms and are helping to create the very stress they claim to relieve. Goto Top I heard that over time, your lungs begin to heal from smoking cigarettes. I would like to know if they ever do fully heal and if so, how long does it take for them to. Please respond ASAP, it’s for a paper
