Children are really unaffected by long-term health outcomes. All they care about is the present. They care about how they look, how attractive they are to others, and they also don't like to be exploited. |
What both of those states have done is they've increased the tax on cigarettes and used a portion of those funds to pay for very aggressive media campaigns to educate the public, particularly children. |
When we think of smoking, we tend to think of adults and older adults dying of lung cancer or emphysema. What we miss is the fact that they're dying as adults because of decisions they made as a child. |