Creative or Stupid Way To Get People To Quit Smoking?
October 19th, 2008
Do you have trouble to quit smoking? Are you pregnant? If you answered yes to the questions and live in UK you might get the chance to earn some gift vouchers and beauty treatments in order to encourage you to quit smoking.
You can read the whole story here, but let us discuss about why this is a very bad idea.
First of all, giving out free stuff for pregnant women who smoke is seen as a way of encouraging non-smoking women to smoke. This is because they want to get the freebies (especially beauty treatments) because they are free.
There is no one who doesn’t like free stuff but when you are giving out free stuff to encourage people to quit smoking, it is all so wrong. Not only it is not going to help eliminate the numbers of pregnant women who smoke but this act might increase more people to smoke.
Of course, we are constantly looking for ways to encourage people to quit smoking but giving out free stuff is not the correct way of approaching people in order to get them quit smoking.
This is sort of a bribery and that is another problem in the society as well.
The best way to approach pregnant women to quit smoking is perhaps to educate them about the health complications that might happen during labour and what would happen to the baby due to cigarettes smoking.
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