

Children learn what you don't tell them.
“My mom smokes, because I’m a bad kid.” These are the words of a 6-year-old that I’ll never forget. In the prevention department, we sometimes do what is called a “smoking cessation” lesson. In these lessons, we teach our audience (could be children or adults) about the dangers of tobacco—cigarettes specifically. On this day, I was teaching multiple groups of elementary students, back-to-back, about tobacco, big tobacco advertisements, the health consequences of smoking, and