The jolly mood has evaporated and the laughter vanished. I press the point further. Since tobacco ads usually have little impact on the already 'hooked' adult smokers, it's the young people cigarette companies are mainly interested in. And most of these young people don't know what they are getting into. Besides advertising another prime motivation is peer pressure.
Most children admit that they got their first fag from one of their close friends.
They couldn't say much. A pal of disbelief descends when I give the final figure of 4000. Yes, more than 4,000 chemicals can be found in the cigarette smoke and 43 of those are known to cause cancer. Cigarette is a deadly cocktail of chemicals and science is yet to understand its full impact on human body. My game continued.