I feel like all smoking advertising and education is wrong. Smoking will kill you or is bad for you is a message that few care about. Trying to scare people d

I feel like all smoking advertising and education is wrong. Smoking will kill you or is bad for you is a message that few care about. Trying to scare people doesn’t work. People can smoke a pack a day for 20+ years and be fine. It is the addictive associative nature of it that should have the focus. If you smoke when you drink, you will have cravings when you drink that will last a life time. People always think they can stop, but they don’t consider the other events that will be occurring whilst they try to. It’s a task that must be conducted on top of all the stressful events people deal with during life. It will become a constant multitasking job running alongside everything else. The moment you can’t focus on work without a smoke break is when you are hooked. And people don’t grasp the experience of cancer properly. The slow random nature of it. And the years of looking into the abyss with complete regret. We need to find ways to immerse people in future scenarios to get them to understand addiction and how it happens. Maybe draw an analogy to addictions they already have.