[nickcarraway]

ping

[Old Professer]

Only teachers cheat on the test, after all the students have a future after school.

[ThinkFreedom]

"Parents call my show to tell me that when their children see someone smoking, they say, "Look, that person is using drugs!""

Okay, who is the liberal-minded genius who woke up one morning and said "You know what, I'm'a brainwash them kids into thinkin' that smokin' a Marlboro an' smokin' a crack pipe are one n' the same... 'Att'll learn 'em"? Or what'll happen to those kids when they get to Junior High, smoke a Lucky Strike and think "Well I've done drugs and that wasn't so bad... maybe they're lieing about other drugs like heroin too".

Idiots one and all.

[this_ol_patriot]

More American parents would be upset with their teenage children if they smoked a cigarette than if they cheated on a test.

More American parents don't smoke.

[Humidston]

Dang, Prager is good! Another one out of the ballpark.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'm a nearly completely off-the-stalk reformed smoker. I now smoke between a quarter and a half of a cigarette, every second or third day. I'd give anything to ensure that my kids won't pick up this filthy, useless, unhealthy and expensive habit.

[uglybiker]

[KS Flyover]

[Junior]

False dichotomy.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

If cheating was equated with lying, perhaps more parents would find cheating more harmful than smoking. Cheating is lying, about your abilities. Smoking is an indulgence in a habit. I don't know how it can be equated with being morally right or wrong.

[ladyinred]

I'll bet they would prefer their kid said he/she was gay over them saying they smoke! Smokers have been demonized so much. The hamburger is next.

[Sloth]

Cheating on a test is an attempt to acquire better grades, something that parents usually value & which are alleged to impact future success. Smoking is not undertaken for any such long-sighted goal. Therefore cheating is an immoral but rational gamble, while smoking is simply stupid.