Inoculation approaches may fail since the attitudes of people change over time. For examples, if one is psychologically inoculated against smoking, the effects of inoculation are short-lived and hence after the reinforcement stops, the person slips back to the initial attitudes. Peer pressure occurs under different circumstances, the reasons to refuse peer pressure go beyond weak negative explanations. Some hard facts are necessary to help in making the right decision against the peer pressure. Therefore, the little attack on the cons of smoking does not help the teenagers have permanent attitude changes towards smoking and hence would end up Continue reading...