How independent are you when you can't get through a day (or an hour) without sucking on a cancer stick? The tobacco industry makes smoking look like a lifestyle choice. Dead wrong. It's an addiction, the very opposite of independence. If you want control of your life and health, rebel against tobacco.

A Canadian study found that to recruit new smokers, the tobacco industry uses images that show independence, freedom, and peer acceptance.

As much as a third of all youth who experiment with smoking do so because of effective tobacco industry marketing.