I think even more disturbing than the trends in cigarette smoking, is that two-thirds of the people we studied, and these are people who are relatively well off, had at least one of the adverse childhood experiences that we studied. |
There could be many reasons behind the reversal. There's of course a lot of money spent on advertising and the promotion of cigarettes. It's glamorized in movies. There's sibling and peer pressure to smoke for adolescents. |