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New Campaign Aiming To End Teenage Smoking

Ed. Note: The following content was provided by Prima Pediatrics who is a client of KHTS AM-1220.

A new campaign called #FinishIt has its goals aimed high with the end result being ending teenage smoking all together.

“Only 9% of teens smoke. That’s down from 23% in 2000,” according to the campaigns website. “We can get it to 0%. We’re already so close. If we all join forces – smokers and non-smokers – we can end smoking once and for all.”

As of Tuesday morning, 20,455 children and teens have joined the campaign, and pledged to not smoke, and encourage others to do the same an end teenage smoking.

“We know with absolute certainty that it causes cancer and heart disease,” said Dr Rochelle C. Feldman, M.D. from Prima Pediatrics. “There are still a whole load of teenagers who start smoking.”

How To End Teenage Smoking

As campaigns to discourage smoking continue and college campuses and other outdoor areas across the United States ban smoking, teenagers still start smoking.

“Every day, almost 3,900 children under 18 years of age try their first cigarette, and more than 950 of them will become new, regular daily smokers,” according to the American Lung Association. “Half of them will ultimately die from their habit.”

“Teenagers don’t have a lot of prefrontal cortex yet, it’s the area that’s involved in executive function,” said Feldman. “Teenagers think they are immortal.”

The campaign encourages teens to not judge, but instead get educated on the facts of smoking.

Check out Feldman’s interview on KHTS here:

Facts of Smoking

“We’re not here to criticize your choices, or tell you not to smoke. We’re here to arm everyone – smokers and non-smokers – with the tools to make change,” according to their website. “The power comes from you. All of you. Together, we are bigger, louder, and more powerful than Big Tobacco.”

For more information on the campaign, visit the website here

“The staff and physicians at Prima Pediatrics are dedicated to providing a warm and welcoming environment where they maintain and improve the health of all children in Santa Clarita. They provide a full range of high quality, timely and innovative medical care to the community’s young people from birth to young adulthood. Prima Pediatrics continuously aims to be the medical home and source for all children’s health issues especially those with special needs.”

Prima Pediatrics, Dr Rochelle C. Feldman, M.D.

For more information about Prima Pediatrics, click here.

New Campaign Aiming To End Teenage Smoking

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About Kimberly Beers

Kimberly Beers is a Santa Clarita native. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from California State University, Northridge in 2013. While attending the university, she focused her attention on news writing and worked as a primary news writer for the campus' award winning radio station and televised news program. She began writing news stories for KHTS in 2014 and hopes to have a lifetime career dedicated to writing and sharing the news