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One of my favorite songs is Tweet’s Smoking Cigarettes. When I was in the single digits of age, I couldn’t wait to smoke. I understood I had to be an adult, but Joe Camel was so smooth and cool! I would pose, and hold my bubble gum cigarettes between my peace sign and prance around just like the did in the movies.
Through out middle school, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro made it her business to implement anti-smoking programs. By the time I went to high school I knew every statistic possible on WHY not to smoke.
* “More than 152,000 women died from smoking related diseases in 1994.”
* “Tobacco kills more than half a million women per year worldwide. This number is expected to double by 2020. Internationally, women are increasingly targeted by tobacco marketing.”
* African-American Smoking “Statistics”
African Americans - In 1997, about 6.7 million African American adults smoked cigarettes, accounting for approximately 14 percent of the 48 million adult smokers in the United States. The prevalence of current smoking among African Americans is 26.7 percent, compared with 25.3 percent for Caucasians.
