Telling teenagers about the health risks of smoking — It wi… - Malcolm Gladwell

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Telling teenagers about the health risks of smoking — It will make you wrinkled! It will make you impotent! It will make you dead! — is useless,” Harris concludes. “This is adult propaganda; these are adult arguments. It is because adults don’t approve of smoking — because there is something dangerous and disreputable about it — that teenagers want to do it.

Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference · 2002 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is an English-born Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996.

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