[Gabz]

The bad news, is that these neo-puritanical folks are actually making cigarette smoking THE most appealing thing to adolescents in their town.

But even worse, they deny this and claim it is the tobacco company advertising that is causing the increase in adolescent smoking - but even worse - the dipstick media actualy believe them.

[Great Dane]

But even worse, they deny this and claim it is the tobacco company advertising that is causing the increase in adolescent smoking - but even worse - the dipstick media actualy believe them.

How can that be, when in Canada teen smoking is also on the rise, advertising here has been banned for over 20 years. :-}

[leilani]

Yeah, it's the "tobacco company advertising that is causing the increase in adolescent smoking", in their wet fascist dreams, it is! I'm with you. I am the daughter of a MILITANT anti-smoker, the most puritanical health-nut to put ALL of these control-freaks out of business for life, and what did I do?? Of course, I started smoking because it was way cool to do whatever she was hell bent on me NOT doing. My point is, I don't WANT kids to smoke, but these idiots are almost guaranteeing that their kids WILL smoke if they make it "cool" enough by being so butt-wrapped about it. The reason there is an explosion in kids smoking (and we all see it at the movie theatres) is that the Hillary Clinton/Nanny-No-No's of this world have made it the forbidden fruit of the age.It's positively CHIC now for teenagers to light up a Marlboro because of all of these nagging Hillaries riding their cases about this.When will we ever learn?