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23. *Smoking Confrontations and Informed Responses/Illustrations
| Smoking Confrontations | Informed Responses/Illustrations |
| If tobacco is so bad, why is it legal? |
There are already so many tobacco addicts, it wouldn't be fair to ban tobacco now. It's too late. (see slide j) The better approach is to prevent tobacco companies from recruiting new addicts to replace the older addicts that are dying off. |
| I can quit anytime I want. | Fact: 90% of adults who smoke, are kids who started smoking and then couldn't quit. (see slides h, j) |
| There are people who are in their 80's still living and still smoking | There are also people who put three bullets in a six-chambered gun, put the gun in their mouth, pull the trigger and live. Same odds with smoking! |
| Why not smoke? Everyone has to die sometime! |
Yes, but why die painfully, 15 yrs. 90% of patients with lung cancer are smokers. (see slides 13, 14, 17) 90% of patients with emphysema are smokers. (see slides 18, p) (Did you know that David Millar, the first Marlboro man, died of emphysema, from smoking?) |
| Walking across a street is also a risk. You can be hit by a car? |
What are the odds you'll get hit by a car, 1 in 10,000? What are the odds you'll die early and painfully from smoking cigarettes? 1 in 3 if you're smoking regularly before age 18; 1 in 2 if you become a long term smoker. Not the same odds! |
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