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Quote by: sdbest  A query: would you be in favor of retailers being able to sell cigarettes to children of any age? If not why not? And if so, why?
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Selling is one thing... Where are you going with that?
You see Penthouse in teen movies or some other playboy they're oogling, you see them in the corner store on the shelf.... they are being advertised equally as smokes, yet where is the outcry for this? There isn't.... because it doesn't kill....
Well how do they get smokes? From friends who are older, or from family, not from the actors in a movie.
How do they get these magazines? Dad's room or big brothers'..... sometimes at grandpas..... but that's just kinda wierd.
If you were not that stupid as a child and never smoked because of movies.... exactly how do you believe other kids are that dumb?
Perhaps Inbreeding?
Maybe it's for the best in that case?
Seriously.... Is your heart just pouring out for all those poor victims of smoking? Does it really get you all misty at night? Does this physically and mentally bother you that you can not properly funtion on a daily basis?
No?
Then what do you care who smokes and who dies?
The same attitude I always see is
"we gotta stop the teenagers from smoking"..... and when they start.....
"OMG, quick, get them treatment!"....... Then they hit the age to buy them, and then.... as the Brits sometimes say..... you guys jog off and forget all about them and continue on the precious children...... :rolleyes:
To be equally fair.... if you restrict movies with a smoker in it to 17+, you have to apply the same standards towards every incident in a movie that may impression a child to do something that may be dangerous...... race a car.... shoot a gun.... be a super hero.... kill aliens
(They could come in peace until Jr comes along and shoots them)
Come on now... be logical about this.