A message that works well, Florida found, stresses Big Tobacco is out to get teens addicted to cigarettes. It gets kids to rebel against being manipulated by tobacco companies. Tobacco companies have long known ad campaigns get results. The other prong of DHEC's now-frozen program would have consisted of using Upstate citizen coalitions to monitor smoking policies in schools. The program would have helped citizens' groups urge school smoking bans, including stopping teachers from smoking anywhere on campus where they might be observed by students.
Teachers are role models.
No statewide anti-smoking policy exists for the state's 210 high schools. He said Wednesday that DHEC's freeze saddens him. We get all this money from the tobacco settlement. Smith stopped smoking the next day. It took him more than a year to shake smoking's addictive pull.