Puff mongers
Those who say that advertisements have little role in luring people to smoking need to think again. A recent Indo- us study, conducted on 11,642 sixth and eighth graders in Delhi and Tamil Nadu found that nearly 50 per cent of the kids had seen and remembered a tobacco advertisement. More than 400 students had a favourite tobacco ad while 238 of them could recall a brand name. The study was published in the May issue of the American Journal of Health Behaviour. It