Tobacco misconceptions are still prevalent in the United States despite the dramatic drop in smoking rates since the release of the first Surgeon General’s Report on smoking and health in January 1964.(1)
As a result, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), launched the government's largest effort yet to curb tobacco use among at-risk teens. The $115 million media campaign follows the FDA's new authority to regulate tobacco, granted by a 2009 law. The ads will target the roughly 10 million American teens who are open to smoking or are already experimenting with cigarettes.(6)
It discusses things like smoking may stain your teeth and turn your fingers yellow, and that it can also harm your skin by destroying its elastic fibers and weakening its ability to repair itself.(7)
References
1. http://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/news-releases/2013/tobaccosmokingmyths.html.
2. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/17/276558592/candy-flavors-put-e-cigarettes-on-kids-menu.
3. http://www.cancermoonshots.org/.
4. http://www.cancermoonshots.org/platforms/cancer-prevention-control/.
5. http://www.dogheirs.com/elleng/posts/5158-dog-owner-warns-that-e-cigarettes-are-a-serious-danger-to-dogs-after-his-puppy-dies.
6. http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm384049.htm.
7. http://therealcost.betobaccofree.hhs.gov/costs/health-costs/index.html.