Thehooperman
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I've taken the liberty of taking a look at some stats, sure beats opinions.
This is interesting (IMO).
Shows that without intervention (whatever level of intervention that may be) there's every chance something that does need changing doesn't change. What i mean is; invention was needed, intervention was taken and this lead to a decline in smoking numbers.
This shows intervention equals decline.
I do agree intervention of some kind is always needed to influence/achieve any form of change and admire your conviction in something you are obviously very passionate about.
All I was trying to say was that shock/horror tactics don't work long term in my view.
I know statistics can be read in any way you want but it looks like the smoking rate actually went up for men when the larger health warnings were introduced.
I do occasionally eat vegetarian food and enjoy it but I'm not sure I would ever be persuaded to go vegetarian full time.