Teen girls and ‘cool’ smoking

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Everyone has heard the lectures about smoking from the day they hit junior school on up through adult hood.  However, despite the fervent lectures plenty of people still smoke and it is hard to deny the photographs of young teenage celebrities who smoke blatantly in front of the camera and behind it for the paparazzi to catch have their effect on teen girls.

 

 

It can be easy to ignore the lectures and focus on the fact that it seems that anyone who is cool is smoking, but to ignore these facts would be to ignore the truth.  After all, take a closer look the celebrities that smoke and likely you will see an entirely new mess of problems that you can easily recognize are negative.

Ironically, due to the fact that smoking is such an easy habit to acquire many people write it off as inconsequential, but this because they lack a true understanding of what ‘cool’ is and how damaging the habit can be.  Having yellow teeth is certainly not ‘cool’ and living a celebrity lifestyle that requires rehab and prison time is not ‘cool.’

While smoking will not necessarily cause you to live any of the later two possibilities, it seems odd that one would take their popularity and social cues from individuals that clearly have no understanding of how destructive their choices are.  With this in mind, it is much better to take popularity cues from those with healthy habits, one of which includes making the conscientious choice to never pick up a cigarette in the first place.

 

 

 

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