For Teenage Smokers, Removing the Allure of the Pack

The article I have read for teenage smoking is called, “For Teenage Smokers, Removing the Allure of the Pack.” This article was published on August 1, 2012, which was recently. I read this article online on New York Times website, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/for-teenage-smokers-removing-the-allure-of-the-pack. Basically, this article was talking about why teenagers started smoking in the first place and some ways to prevent teenagers to stop now or starting later. According to researchers, they think stopping teens from smoking will be a difficult task to do and prevent rather than stopping obesity. That’s how serious and hard it could be to stop this. The reason teens start smoking is because they think it’s “cool,” and try to impress their friends thinking they are adults acting with a reckless behavior. Last year, about 18 percent of students who were seniors were smokers in high school. This is very sad considering that these teens know what smoking can do and yet they still have the guts to do such a thing. They probably know they could get lung cancer later in their years; this could cause major problems and maybe even their life. But yet, teens don’t care about their health these days. One strategy they are trying to prevent this from happening is that they want to make smoking look uncool by changing the packages and so forth. I really think that this isn’t going to change a thing. Teenagers are still going to smoke whether they care or not, this all ties in with peer pressure too.