1. School has been stripped of much of its executive power to
enforce discipline.
2. School isn't the only source for values to be imparted to
teens. Parents are also responsible. And the funny thing is that
parents today are so obsessed in reining in teachers hence point
no.1
3. And the most important point. Stop promoting smoking as a
deviant act. Branding smoking as deviant only enhances its allure
as a forbidden fruit that teens will crave. We have all gone thru
that phase and we know the more adults forbid us to do something,
the more we want to do it. The usual anti-establishment
mentality.
As long as the flawed anti-smoking campaign and intolerant
societal views continue, smoking will only remain attractively
deviant.
Go read Malcolm Gladwell's Tipping Point. It is very
persuasive.
Their parents buy for them. As what I heard from my friend, his
friend's dad/mom buys him beer to drink.
