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Children are being encouraged to put pressure on their parents to stop smoking.
Children as young as three years of age are being given smoking related health lectures in their schools and nurseries, in a attempt to get them to put pressure on their parents to stop smoking.
Anti-smoking campaigners use models of the lungs of smokers to show how they differ from those of non-smokers.
The anti-smoking campaign, being run by Colchester and Tendring NHS Stop Smoking Service has been criticised as being potentially frightening to young children, although those running the campaign claim that it is run in a ‘delicate’ manner.
Colchester and Tendring NHS Stop Smoking Service is also running another controversial trial, whereby pregnant women are being paid in supermarket vouchers if they stop smoking.
Official figures show that the number of smokers in the UK have reached an all time low, with only 21% of UK adults now smoking.
This is claimed to show that the UK smoking ban, along with more aggressive government campaigns are working.
The aim of the campaign to get children to put pressure on their parents to stop smoking includes a reduction in the effect of passive smoking on the children.
In addition to this, it is hoped to have a knock-on effect, in that children who grow up in a non-smoking household, are far less likely to take up smoking themselves.
Author: Paul Douglass D.Hyp. Adv. MIAPH Acc. (Avon Hypnotherapy)
Article Date: 23rd February 2009
  
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