U.K.:Children urged to pressure parents on smoking

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | June 30, 2007 | Adam Lusher

[Stoat]

[NaughtiusMaximus]

The ghost of Uncle Joe Stalin smiles benevolently over their shoulders.

[philman_36]

Read it online.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Well, Soviet Communist Young Pioneers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneer_organization_of_the_Soviet_Union and German Nazi Hitler Jugend (Youth) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth
spied and admonished their parents, so why shouldn’t the United Kingdom’s Socialist kids do the same?

[Marie]

It is not necessarily down to the children to tell parents to give up now, but the ideal is for them to explain, 'Mum, I don't want you to smoke at all'."

And it's up to the parents to say, "You are the child. I am an adult. You have NO power over me or, for that matter, over anyone. You only have power over yourself. I hope that you learn from my mistakes and choose to be *better* than me in this regard. If you have a problem with smoking, then don't smoke."

(Typing with hic-cups isn't impossible... only very difffficull-t!) ;-)

[endthematrix]

Vanguard of the Future...

[HungarianGypsy]

You know you love these.

[RandallFlagg]

Ping-a-roonie!

[endthematrix]

""It's about getting children to fight for their rights. Workers will visit schools to educate children about the dangers of second-hand smoke, so children can then ask their parents to respect their right to grow up in a smoke-free home." "

You remember the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

[R.W.Ratikal]

The U. K. should be urging children to learn about the constitution and the free market.

Somewhere Lenin, Mao and Stalin are high-fiving it.

[djf]

Parents urged to chop the rugrats into pieces and feed them to the crows?

[metesky]

“Bad news, son. We’re not your real parents and if you don’t shut up we’re giving you back.”

[Gabz]

Nanny State Ping.

I need more coffee.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Our 'Nanny State Cig Cam' catches Gabz in a pensive moment...

[Gabz]

LOL!!!

[beckysueb]

When the kiddies start paying the bills, then they can tell me what to do in my house.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Thanks for the ping, Gabz! You’d think Great Britain would have more pressing concerns these days.

This just in: a car full of cigarettes was found parked in front of the nightclub, Tiger Tiger! A carload of Asians puffing away on cigarettes crashed into an airline terminal at Glasgow Airport! Idiots...

[383rr]

Just what I was thinking. It’s the real world version of theso vile little “spies”.

[383rr]

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