LaKind and Goodman wrote they excluded survey respondents who omitted their age, body mass, smokingbehavior or other variables to keep the data consistent.
Portrayals of smoking in kid-oriented movies tend to be less than realistic and are probably a weaker influence on tween and teen behavior than smoking in films geared toward older audiences, Sargent says.
The results showed that participants given the fake cigarette as treatment, and who were identified as being heavily dependent on the behavior of smoking, had a quit rate roughly 3.5 times higher than those in the standard-treatment group (67% vs. 19%).
Smoking an addictive, deadly behavior that lines the coffers of companies that do little if any good for the world somehow persists as a pose of rebellion.