Everybody, Please Read This Article by Patrick Reynolds

[MarylandQuitter]

As you read the entire article, you'll probably be even more disgusted with big tobacco and how they targeted us and now our children.

 

Patrick Reynolds was the first tobacco industry figure to turn his back on the cigarette makers. He's a grandson of the tobacco company founder R.J. Reynolds, but the family's cigarette brands, Camel and Winston, killed his father and eldest brother.

 

Since first speaking out in Congress in 1986, Patrick has been a well respected champion for a tobacco free society. In hundreds of live talks before universities, middle schools and high schools, and with over 6,000 copies of his educational video purchased by schools and health departments, Mr. Reynolds has reached well over a million youth in school with his powerful talk about the dangers of tobacco.

 

http://www.anti-smoking.org/children.htm

[action]

Thanks MQ - have bookmarked for later today - looks great!

[MarylandQuitter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciLttNx2XA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW913Cg037k

[MarylandQuitter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwVbMGu5FyU

[Still winning]

Wow, that's utterly horrific to read, I genuinely had no real idea they were targeting us all so young and that campaigns were part of that. 

 

I'd like to say interesting but it feels too small. Make sure we stay free and show our little people a better way.

[natalie_3]

It´s so true...and so sad. I got hooked as a teen and I´m sure some of you too. In some other video you posted (Sex, Lies and Cigarettes) they explain how kids are the new target market. 

[Devil Doll]

It´s so true...and so sad. I got hooked as a teen and I´m sure some of you too. In some other video you posted (Sex, Lies and Cigarettes) they explain how kids are the new target market. 

I watched that yesterday and shook my head the whole time. 

[Frezflops]

Yeah I smoked as a teen but it wasn't because of commercials or ads.....My dad smoked and My sister smoked , my step mom smoked for a bit.......I tried it at 13 then stopped wasn't interested in it at all then when I was 16 for absolutely no reason at all (my friends did not smoke) I started smoking full time....I believe I was self-medicating my anxiety issues when in realty I would have benefited from some medications and therapy. then of course I was hooked after that. I didn't think of the consequences a lot of teens don't, they tend to think they are invincible so they make risky decisions---for example a HS football player was severely injured when he jumped on the hood of his friends van, fell off then run over by the same van.

I remember taking a note from my dad to the gas station to buy him cigs back then and I also bought mine in the same place. I was never carded back then. The first time I was carded was when I was over 21 oddly enough. I wasn't easily swayed by ads still aren't which is why the anti-smoking ads never swayed me to the other side sooner. I think it was a combo of members of the family smoking and self-medication and believing that I enjoyed smoking. I totally regret that decision now but it is what it is cant change the past can only move toward the future.

[Doreensfree]

Thanks MQ....

Shocking to listen too....targeting the young ,the vulnerable.....who don't know the dangers....made me angry....

I was only 11 when started.smoking.....hanging about with kids older than me.....

My mum and dad smoked too.....so didn't have any warnings about health.....

But if I try and look back....it's a long time......I don't suppose I thought i would be still doing it 52 years later.....

[Still winning]

And that's it really Doreen isn't it....who would know it'd addictive like that!!  Because if it were so bad it wouldn't be available and taxed, it would be banned right...and no one would get sucked in again....and oh.... 

 

It's plain sick that it's readily available when they know what damage it does. The more I think the more angry I become about the target audience!!

[Paul723]

Third world here we come! As if they didn't have enough troubles.

[Doreensfree]

Bump for the newbies

[Doreensfree]

Bringing this forward !!!

[c9jane29]

"which begins with the awareness that life will sometimes bring you hard moments and obstacles.

I believe things are designed that way for a good reason. Life is not meant to be easy. It's by our struggles to succeed against adversity that we define our characters and become strong men and women. It's by staying with whatever pain and difficulty life brings us that we heal, and solve our problems — not by running away like cowards.

So when the painful moments come, like so many adults do, don't make the mistake of altering your mood and avoiding the problem at hand by using cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs. People who continue to use tobacco are avoiding the pain of nicotine withdrawal."

 

There is power in this article!

[notsmokinjo]

Bumpity Bump Bump.... great read for our newbies.