Dear Sherry,
Thank you for articulating my own dis-ease. As I observe my own daughter  with  her 12 year old's enormously zealous anti-smoking stance, I wait with bated breath as she enters junior high this year and is presented with all the new challenges of peers and social pressures to conform.  I do know that whatever choice she eventually makes with respect to smoking, it will not be because a picture book pointed out that smoking was bad for her.  The limits of education in health promotion I fear!

Grace Ross
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>Hi Tricia,
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>Your message has been on my mind for a few days, I am not sure how to get
>at the issues it raises for me, but I will give it a try.
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>I am not sure if you are going about this the right way, especially in
>light of the recent study on why young women are smoking.  Is a book on
>smoking and its affects going to address the issues of the need of young
>women to be attractive to the opposite sex?  Or are books that have strong
>women heroes that have success with their lives going to have more of an
>overall impact on the choices that are made?
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>Just a thought,
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>S
>Sherrie Tingley
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