"advartisements" - 1 õppematerjal

Smoking is on the increase among young people

Youths should also see the visuals how smoking ages skin and yellows teeth. Also a similar meetings for parents and students should be organised. After this parents might be more intrested in and responsible for their child' s health. Teens would care about their health more if they knew about the consequences of tobacco. Raising awareness is a good solution to reduce underage smoking. Another suggestion would be to ban adverts that supports smoking. We could for example, ban magazine advartisements. It would be a good idea because teens read magazines very often and they see the pictures in them. Many famous or rich people are seen smoking in advartisements, there are flashy pictures of them with cigarettes in their hands or hanging out of their mouths. If we don't have images that advertise cigarettes, smoking would be less glamorous. We could also forbid advertising cigarettes on televison and in movies because teens look up to actors and actresses, they