Children's Health
Jump to full article: NBC6 WCNC-TV (Charlotte, NC), 2006-03-09
Author: Damon Green / ITV News
Intro: Children in Britian are drawing anti-smoking pictures like this one to try and get their parents to quit.
The war on cigarettes is in full swing in Britain as an anti-smoking group has started a campaign that gets children to draw pictures of their parents smoking with captions like "mommy, you're killing me."
The group hopes a heart-felt message from children will get some parents to kick the habit.
Most smokers are adults, but many who suffer the side-effects are much, much younger.
So those trying to persuade us to quit smoking believe it's only children who can help us kick the habit.
The images in a book published by one cancer charity today were all drawn by youngsters desperate for their parents to give up like Lewis Michael Waite, 10, who had to live with his mom's secondhand smoke.
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