Kidlink challenge for kids: Convince politicians that stopping smoking is important!

Provide Evidence!

You must provide evidence that stopping smoking is important
(to the politicians themselves).

"Buy your SMOKE SUCKER at only $1000 dollars! It will suck up smoke from
your house and all over your town. It is about the size of a satellite dish.
If you buy now we will send you a FREE, yes free mini-SMOKE SUCKER
for the inside of your house."Jack and Jason, USA, 1996

Help increase public knowledge of the negative effects of smoking, of the lies and manipulations that might seem to justify smoking. Ideas:

find Kidlink kids living in countries permitting smoking, or in countries where a smoking has recently been considerably reduced. Listen to their personal stories. Good stories may be of interest to your collaborators in the journalists/writers community. For example, they might combine good personal stories with dry statistics of the number of kids against smoking to make a more readable text or interview or show.
monitor what your local news say about smoking. Check with alternative sources to see if the news is correct, or misleading and manipulating. Contact the news media to have mistakes corrected, or complain by sending an article to your local newspaper.
help your schoolmates get a clear idea of what is happening. Your class or school magazine/newspaper may be an effective means. Do not give up. We must fight together for a better world!

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