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Great work of health departments and anti-smoking groups seems to reach a deadlock. Antismoking groups have launched programs to discourage and to reduce the number of teenager smokers, but even it has been already spent huge amount of money the outcome seem to be not that it was expected. It is supposed that trying to prohibit smoking in children’s eyes, these programs have glamorized cigarettes.

“The more you make smoking something taboo and forbidden and wrong, the more you attract teenagers who want to rebel,” pro-smoking pressure group Forest said in a reportage.

“This is more nanny state nonsense which attempts to make smokers feel bad about themselves and victimise them. It won't help prevent children from smoking,” added group.

Maybe it is because of bad draw up of anti-smoking campaigns or due to exaggerate advertising, but it seems that campaigns get weary and bring a total opposite statistics.

Psychologists said that teens 15 to 17 years old, because of awkward age, refuse to pay attention to that kind of anti-smoking messages, pretending that they are independent.

Even so, these campaigns continue to launch. Hope, they will reach in the end their initial goal. Though, organizers of anti-smoking campaigns should bear in mind that children have a different psychology that adults and that works for adults can have a feedback effect for teens.