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Promoting Smoking

by Terry Gray

“...and this just out: A new survey concludes that tobacco ads are more influential than believed in promoting smoking to our youth.”

          Listen, dummies, we’ve seen much stronger ads in the past.  It isn’t the ads; it’s the lack of parenting and the examples that the parents set.  I get so angry with these special interest groups who want nothing more than to get the government more involved in our daily lives through more legislation.

          Whatever happened to, “Talk to your kids, they’ll listen?”  I’ll tell you what happened to it.  Parents stick cigarettes in their mouths and expound on the dangers of smoking.  Try setting an example.  The kids who pick up smoking early simply have no respect for their parents and probably no respect for anyone else.  They haven’t been taught respect.

          I smoke.  I don’t blame anyone.  But if I had to place blame, it sure as hell wouldn’t be on advertising. Let’s take the blame right to the very root.  GOD.  He gave us this devil weed just to poison our children.  Just like he gave us alcohol, fast cars, diseases, and all the other things that “responsible” adults refuse to take responsibility for.  Let’s send him notice that if he doesn’t straighten up we’ll take him to court and suit his ass.  Yeah, that’s it.

          Okay, so we can’t blame God.  I know, how about the American Indians.  They were the original cultivators.  No wait, let’s blame the pilgrims, they were the pushers and dealers.  And then of course our forefathers grew it on plantations.  Put the blame where the blame lies.  An advertisement can’t light the cigarette.

          You idiots who whine and bitch just don’t want to take responsibility.

          You know, if smoking ads were all so powerful as to influence kids to smoke, why aren’t the anti-smoking ads working?  Where’s the influence there?  You never see a pro-smoking ad on television, but television is loaded with anti-smoking ads.  Where is the big old influence of the devil T.V.?  Is it the magazine ads?  Those luxurious smokers with their wonderful lifestyles in glossy print.  Teach your kids to read, and they’ll see the bad stuff that goes with the picture. 

          What ever happened to busting a kid’s ass?

 “My child won’t listen to me.  Boo hoo hoo.”

          “So bust his ass.”

          “But then he’ll call the police and I’ll go to jail.”

          Well listen lady, if you are the kind of person who is bitching about your kids smoking because of television ads and whining that you can’t control your kids, then you are the kind of person that has empowered the government to be directly involved in the control of your kids.  The government took over raising them when you started whining.

          Now bust your kid’s ass, go to jail, and deal with it.  I bet the little heathen will think again about smoking.  And if he does, bust his ass again.  Then bust his ass when you get out of jail to punish him for being a nazi.  Then the government will come and take him away and you won’t have to deal with him anymore.  Case closed.

Terry Gray

Rabid Citizen

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