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                <title><![CDATA[My 1998 Brochure to Teenage Smokers (page 3) - @storyartist]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[  Would you rather shop with $20 or $100?        Todays teens are selective and many choose not to date smokers. Some avoid smokers on the advice of their parents. Non-smokers are free to browse through the dating scene with less credit denial than smokers.   Those who do accept are often discouraged by the smell of smoke on clothes or breath and are reluctant to kiss or sit close. This creates an outcome of rejection that is avoidable. Teens often feel in competition with the smoker's commitment to go outside and puff. Most feel entitled to flirt and act single when left alone. While this does not largely impact casual dating, it creates suspicion, mistrust, and misunderstanding between couples going steady.       ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:44:24 -0400</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[My 1998 Brochure to Teenage Smokers (page 2) - @storyartist]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[       The years of adolescence are by nature an emotional roller coaster.   As teens become young adults and separate from childhood, hormones are racing and forever changing their social worlds.   School is a place to create a social database while these emotions lead the way.    Tobacco takes a smoker on a roller coaster ride fueled by nicotine and acetaldehyde. Nicotine is a stimulant, and the acetaldehyde (additive) is a sedative.   It is this chemistry of stimulant and sedative that entices and grows addictive.    The parallels of the effects of tobacco with teenage emotional surges create a temptation, especially during the dating years, as a way to manage feelings. The use of tobacco to manage feelings delays the process of emotional growth that you will need to enter your 20-something years.<br>             _________________________________(page 2)_____________________________   ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:38:38 -0400</pubDate>
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                <title><![CDATA[My 1998 Brochure to Teenage Smokers (cover and page 1) - @storyartist]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[       Ive got choices and I choose to light one up.    Ive read the media hype.        Get a life and stop trying to fix mine.           _ ____________________________________(cover)________________________________________         Medical consequences of nicotine will appear in later years. Present day consequences appear in the form of what is missing rather than what is damaged. Lets browse through channels in the top menu:                  Swimming           Football           Basketball                    School Play         Health Club           Language Club                    Yearbook         School Band             Prom Planning Committee                       Is this a preview of my life, always missing out      on activities that get into the yearbook?       _____________________________________________(Page 1)________________________    <br style="page-break-before:always;" clear="all">                                 ]]></description>
                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:17:21 -0400</pubDate>
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