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Tobacco Company Tricks There are lots of ways that kids get tricked into smoking cigarettes or using smokeless tobacco. Tobacco companies try to trick kids into wanting tobacco by using advertisements. The tobacco companies spend about $5 billion on advertising every year, or $16.5 million every day! Tobacco companies are not supposed to try to get kids to use tobacco. It's against the law. Still, many of their advertisements have images and ideas that attract teenagers and young kids. Kids your own age may also trick you into using tobacco by telling you things that are not true. Kids who try to talk you into using tobacco probably don't want to hurt you. Maybe they want to seem cool. Maybe they just want someone else to follow them and do what they do. If other kids get you to use tobacco, they do hurt you in the long run. In the following pages, look at some of the ways kids like you get tricked into using tobacco. Some of them are cigarette ads from popular magazines. Some of them are things that could happen to you in your daily life. Explain What's the Trick? By choosing the best answer under the picture. In lots of cases, more than one answer is correct. When you are done, click here see results or to find out what other kids thought about each tricky situation.     View the tricks...

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