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Twas The Night Before Christmas: Edited By Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st Century by Clement C. Moore

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             The UK Dept. of Health released a study conducted on 1,000 children aged 7-13 who had a parent that was smoking in November 2011. More than half (54%) of the children said their one wish

for Christmas was that their mum or dad would give up smoking. They would go to considerable

lengths to get them to give up smoking,going to bed when asked, doing their homework and going

without Christmas presents if it would make a difference. 73% of children with a parent smoking

about their parent being killed by tobacco and almost 1/3 admitted to hiding cigarettes in an attempt to

get them to stop 98% of the children wished their parents would stop. The children labelled smoking

"stupid" and expressed that they wished no one in the world smoked.  50% of people who smoke do

eventually die from a tobacco related death. The implications of a smoking Santa are blatantly

obvious. 

Joe Camel and all other cartoon characters depicting smoking where prohibited in 1998 based on research released in the Journal of American Medicine that established that the exposure to such depictions had a role in sympathizing kids 3-7 of age towards tobacco products.  This research galvanized the public around the need to do more to protect children from the tobacco industry, an industry that spends more than one million marketing dollars an hour in the USA.
 25% of individuals who become long time tobacco users started before the age of 10 - 90% before the age of 18. Nicotine addiction is labelled a pediatric disease. 

"Prevention is probably the most cost-effective way to reduce health care costs and improve the health of millions of people. "                                                                               Author - Margaret Cuomo M.D.

 "Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable and premature death."

                                                                                                                        Kathleen Sebelius - Secretary of Health

"In all 88% of adult cigarette smokes who smoke daily, report that they started smoking by the age of 18. This is a time in life of great vulnerability to social influences, ... including everything from sleek ads in magazines to youth generated posts on social networking sites, to images of smoking in movies - conveys messages that make tobacco use attractive to youth and young adults. "

                                                                                                                        Regina Benjamin US Surgeon General

37 Attorney Generals in the USA have supported the call for restrictions on films with smoking that children are exposed to.  ( 2012) 

"The tobacco industry spends almost $10 billion a year to market its products, half of all movies for children under 13 contain scenes of tobacco use. "    

                                                                                                                  Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health. 2012

" Pipe tobacco consumption increased by 573% from 2008 to 2011."

                                                                                                                   CDC and Statement Matthew L. Myers President   

                                                                                                                   Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.