According to the article, Anti-smoking policies for adults also reduce kid’s smoking by Professor Melanie Wakefield, for a government to control smoking it has to create a detailed tobacco control program. This program helps the government to reduce smoking among adults as well adolescents and kid’s. For these to be achieved the government needs to fully finance the programs and create effective anti smoking policies. When such programs are used, it is necessary for policy makers as it helps them lower the cost they would have initially used.
Anti- smoking programs include placing taxes on tobacco products, mass –media campaigns, indoor smoking restrictions, and well funded adult-focused tobacco control programs. These programs may take some time to implement and require many funds to run them. Such programs for example in Australia have helped reduce smoking in both adults and adolescents. These programs have also helped reduce the rate of kid’s smoking. When parents smoke, their kids also tend to pick the same behaviors as the think it is a good thing to do. Through the tobacco control program that encourages adults to reduce smoking and finally quitting will help to encourage their children stop smoking. Advertisements also contribute towards achieving these as they bring out the health effects of smoking such as mouth and liver cancer that may make the youth be scared of smoking or drop the habit of smoking early. Through these adolescents and kid’s, develop a fear of smoking because of the consequences it has.
