Hide the cigarettes  Avatar for cmkarla Registered: 01-03-2001
Hide the cigarettes Mon, 12-03-2012 - 1:14pm  According to this
Health Day News article, if stores hide the cigarettes, kids are
much less likely to try buying them. " U.S. teens are much less
likely to buy cigarettes if they are hidden from view, new
research suggests.   Your thoughts?  Community
ModeratoriVillage.com  iVillage Member Registered: 10-08-2002
Tue, 12-04-2012 - 10:53am  I totally agree with a lot of
this.....the only part is the peer pressure kids get as well as
availabilty.  I would be out to the skating rink and the
cigaratte machine would just be there.  My girlfriends would say
something like "hey...we can pool our money and get some cigs."
 We would do just that.  In the beginning, I didnt care one way
or the other, but I wanted to fit in...and if we all did it,
why...it was a social thing....and that made it ok.  I was not
sneaking behind my friends backs....and sneaking behind my
parents back was a rite of passage to being to