[kinghorse]

I am father to kids approaching the dangerous (read teen)years. I wish it was nearly imposible for them to obtain tobacco products, products that are pumped up to insure addiction. I wish tobacco was illegal because once most people taste of it, they are hooked in one capacity or another FOR LIFE.

One actually crosses the rubicon of healthfulness or abusiveness the day a cigarette is first pressed to their lips. You would think that would be important enough to want to stamp out. Why isn't addictive behavior the subject attacked in these ads?

I think kids would buy into it a helluva lot better if all these substances (legal and otherwise) were attacked concurrently.

[MrLeRoy]

I think kids would buy into it a helluva lot better if all these substances (legal and otherwise) were attacked concurrently.

But they can't be attacked concurrently while some are legal and some are otherwise. I prefer legalizing it all for adults, and giving kids straight information (not Reefer Madness horror stories).

[uncbob]

I wish tobacco was illegal because once most people taste of it, they are hooked in one capacity or another FOR LIFE.

I know what you mean
Unfortunately after I tasted CHEETOS for the first time I have a craving for them and the trans fatty hydroginized fats ( that leads to hardening of the arteries ) that won't go away . So I only indulge myself maybe once a month.
However them cigarettes that I quit in 70 no longer interest me and actually turn me off when I see people smoking them.
But people eating CHEETOS tortures me