[GSWarrior]

Unfortunately, it is parents take these commercials at face value.
My parents were in their 20s in the 1930s and, because they blamed my occasional pot use in high school on everything from my having to have braces to having discovered the joys of self-abuse, I can only assume they fell for the propaganda hook line and sinker.

[steve-b]

they blamed my occasional pot use in high school on everything from my having to have braces to having discovered the joys of self-abuse

Reminds me of an item from a book of flubbed headlines:

SELF-ABUSE IS NUMBER-ONE KILLER