Week 4; Post 1

Dr. Novello is a woman that didn't let the fact that she was born into a poor family, the loss of her father at a young age, and dealing with health problems as a child stand in the way of achieving remarkable things. In fact these may be some of the reasons she was so motivated to helping reduce the devastation created by AIDS, violence, smoking, and alcohol. Her use of cause-and-effect inductive reasoning was helpful when she began her crusade to lower the increased number of teens and children that smoked cigarettes. She noticed that the numbers increased substantially in 1988 which was when cigarette ads hit the public eye.  She reasoned that since the ads came out the same year of the increase they must be related. The increased number in teens and children smoking was caused by the ads they were being exposed to. The exposure to cigarette smoke in turn effected the health of the teens and children.