re: last laugh.
Granted, the Post rubbed reader's noses in the fact of the cigarette with its headline, but really, is lung cancer this kid's prime worry right now?
Yeah, smoking's unhealthy. Yeah, the Marlboro Man has cancer, and they're GLAD, because he was just one of those goddam cowboys anyway, with his hat and those boots and that gun, and just so WRONG for our modern, enlightened America.
Geez.
I could easily imagine a photo of a Marine with a hula girl tattooed to his arm, and outraged feminists writing letters about it.
Some people have their noses so far up in the air, sometimes I wonder that birds don't fly into their nostrils.