Didn't know that Jeanne, here is a big Woot Woot for kick butts day?

Great day to celebrate "kick butts"!!

I sure hope it works as statistics are saying there is an increase again in teen smoking. If they only knew what we all know now.

Does this mean we can kick the butt of any teenager we see smoking...hehehe....wouldnt some mums loooove that.

do you think for one minute that teenagers will listen to us, they know it all.

It has always been my question..when teenagers smoke...who buys their cigs???

From their stupid 18 yr old friends or they just steal them from their smoking parents.

Ok then where to they get the Money?

grannie, I started smoking when I was 12 and I always found a way to get a couple bucks for a pack of cigarettes...I would take my parents cigarettes when I didn't have money and if I didn't have enough money my friend and I would combine our money and share the smokes...we would not eat lunch and spend that money on them and some of us got allowances(not me...lol)...Once I was 15 I could buy them at most convenient stores and when I was 16 my dad would get them for me...teens can always find a way to get cigarettes...they have/get more money and freedom now a days...all we can do is hope we have taught them well enough to know how nasty and harmful it is to smoke

The teens I see at the bus stops who smoke think it is cool, that nothing will happen to them, that they can wait to quit later.

Sadly they will learn later the consequences. I think that it would be very hard to stop teens from smoking if they want to do so, and it will take some radical ideas to have any affect which is hard to implement or enforce.

I started relatively late at 19 but many of my friends started earlier. My parents did not smoke because both of their parents smoked and they hated it, my dad said it made him sick to be around his parents smoking, mom said same, they both recall feeling ill around cigarette smoke. But I started smoking and my brother chewed tobacco for many years, he was able to quit. My daughter was like my folks-hated the smell, hated the smoke, would feel sick to her stomach around it.

I hope that more teens can influence other teens to not smoke, peer pressure to NOT smoke-that may help, other teens may listen to teens about not smoking. That is why that TheTruth.com campaign is so great, it features young people who are speaking out against smoking.

If theyre ready, you cant say anything wrong. If theyre not ready, you cant say anything right.

That's right, just like any other smoker, same way we were :)

Wow!

I think its great that there is now more education and programs to reach the teenagers. I was a very young teen when I (foolishly) started smoking along with a few friends. & as we know how quickly one can become addicted.

Grannie, (re: where do the kids get the ciggs.and money?) where theres a will there's a way! I had one smoking parent and my friends all had at least one smoking parent, some bought cartons and we could steal a pack a few times a week and no one seemed to notice any missing. At least we never heard any comments....from parents.(not proud of the fact we stole them!)

Then- (some friends stole from stores) this was back when cigarettes were on end aisles in supermarket lines, real easy to pocket a pack or two. & other times the older kids got ciggs for us. & like someone else said: allowances. & I used to babysit.

I wonder if I would have heard the messages, had the "kick butts" education been around for teens in my youth. Well, I hope it helps as many teens as possible not light up or to stop smoking.....

I'm so happy to be smoke free now!
Jess