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re: making choices
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Look, let's be realistic. A kid might start smoking because his parents do. A kid might start smoking because his friends do. These two factors probably account for more kids starting smoking than almost anything else.

I seriously doubt a kid is going to start smoking because he saw a picture of a Marine with a cigarette on the front of a newspaper.

A lot of the people getting hissy about that picture are getting hissy not because it promotes bad health habits, but because it represents the sort of American "cowboy" image that just plain chaps their asses. Kind of like Humvees do for some people, or John Wayne. Or Reagan and George W. Bush, for that matter.

Oddly, I don't recall anyone ever getting on Clinton's case for smoking cigars (actually smoking cigars, outside the White House usually. Absolutely no Monica reference intended.)

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