“I think even more disturbing than the trends in cigarette smoking, is that two-thirds of the people we studied, and these are people who are relatively well off, had at least one of the adverse childhood experiences that we studied.”
“There could be many reasons behind the reversal. There's of course a lot of money spent on advertising and the promotion of cigarettes. It's glamorized in movies. There's sibling and peer pressure to smoke for adolescents.”