Teens are the next generation of smokers, which is why they are vital to the tobacco industry. They [tobacco industry] is interested in keeping their profit margins high, which is why they go to any means possible to get teenagers smoking.
Many tobacco companies will spend nearly $100 million on advertising to put themselves in a better light. Advertisements for cigarettes are usually found in magazines in countries where that's legal, which have a large audience of young people.
According to a certain poll of teens and adults, teenagers are more likely to remember a tobacco ad that they have seen in the past couple of weeks than adults. Teenagers feel that they are target by tobacco companies and they feel it is still easy for them to buy tobacco.
This is direct proof that the problem of tobacco addiction cannot be stopped with tobacco bans, what needs to be think about is the number of young people that become addicted to tobacco.
