Ch. 7 #2

Dr. Novello used cause-and-effect inductive reasoning when she noticed there was a dramatic increase of children and teen smoking in 1988 after the commercials for Camel cigarettes first aired. This is inductive because it is only a guess that the commercials were the cause, but the commercial sounded like a reasonable reason for why teens would start smoking. Teens make up a large part of the T.V. viewers. I don't know what the commercials looks like, but it probably tried to make smoking cool to younger people. Dr. Novello believes the commercial is part of the problem so she worked in schools to education students on the negative correlation between smoking and their health. A good way to convince children and teens not to do something is to scare them into never doing it again. My aunt got my cousin to stop sucking his thumb when he was older by putting a fake bug on his thumb when he was sleeping. When he woke up, he was too scared to keep sucking his thumb after seeing that bug. By teaching the younger generation about disease and health problems, they become too scared to do it. By educating students and banning commercials aimed for teens, the number of children and teens that smoked decreased.