"Virtually all new smokers are adolescent".
All cigarettes to new smokers are harsh".
Tobacco companies spend $157 million a year on advertising to attract new smokers.
Many new smokers don't grasp how important it is to care for their pipes.
The Canadian government is preparing for the public-health problems that an estimated 600,000 new smokers will bring.
The goal, executives said, is not to create new smokers or snuff users, but to offer a safer alternative to tobacco or an aid for quitting.
The writer commends Kennedy for putting the burden of responsibility in the right place - on the advertising man who lures new smokers and deludes the old ones.
Health advocacy groups praised the government plan in the hope that images would shock and deter new smokers and motivate existing smokers to quit.
The point of branded packs is not to entice new smokers but to keep the loyalty of current ones and to encourage smokers of other brands to switch.
Further, we do not market our products to attract new smokers; our target audience is only those consumers who smoke traditional tobacco products.
The lack of nicotine in herbal cigarettes assures that there is nothing to addict new smokers, said Ben Zaricor, the president of Fmali Herb Inc., the importer of the most popular herbal cigarette brand, Honeyrose.
