That's what the tobacco companies and their advertisers have done with smoking. They present images that are hard to shake even when you know the truth. Tobacco companies also pay to place their products in movies. In addition to that, the romantic movie characters you like are often smokers. What they don't tell you in cigarette ads is that they want you to become addicted .
Tobacco companies keep close tabs on the number of teens who are smoking.
They worry when those numbers decline because they need new smokers to replace the 1,200 who die each day from smoking-related illnesses. The Nemours Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted to children's health and is the largest physician practice delivering subspecialty pediatric care in the United States. Inc. All rights reserved. TeensHealth and TeensHealth.org are Service Marks of The Nemours Foundation. All information on TeensHealth is for educational purposes only.