#17......... Matter of fact, here in Canada teen smoking was going down by 5% a year, smoking for teens just wasn't cool anymore, then the ANTI's kept smoking front and center 24-7, lo and behold the kids took up smoking in greater numbers, even my City Councillor agrees with me on that one. :-}
The very best way to keep teens from taking up the habit, was good education, and peer group pressure....... it was working...... until!!
It is odd how the leftists think that talking about vice more (and spending money on it/or taking money out of it) will reduce the behavior. It's rather like my telling you NOT to think about pink elephants. At that moment, that's all you can think about. When will we learn that all the "awareness" raising simply leads to greater curiousity on the part of kids. Seemed we had fewer problems when vice was in the closet and given a badge of shame, rather than being celebrated and given victim status all day/everyday.