Tobacco Effects On Young Children

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I agree that tobacco applications such as the Puff Puff Pass can influence young children and teens the choice of smoking a cigarette in one stage of their life. Children tend to acquire the values, knowledge, and norms of society, which can lead them to believe that tobacco apps are appropriate for them to download and play. Even though children and teens are smoking through a smartphone app it enhances them to take on smoking later in their life due to the early exposure of cigarettes. Young children and teens are at the age where they still do not establish an identity development, which includes the ability to regulate oneself, conscience and self-control. Advertisers target young children and teens with tobacco apps because they are the

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