Are they serious? If someone is actually paying enough attention to an cigarette ad to recognize the brand, they were probably already considering smoking anyway. I was a smoker for 15 years. The reason I started is pretty simple. My friends were smoking. Joe Camel and the Marlboro man didn't make me do it and I wasn't enticed by candy flavorings. In fact, I bought the cheapest cigarettes I could find. I also thought that I could quit whenever I wanted to. I remember people referring to smoking as a "bad habit," but the urge to smoke once addicted is just as powerful as the urge to eat. If you want to prevent teen smoking, please stop listening to these clowns.

People like to have something or sombody to blame for everything. A young person will make their choices on what they will and will not do in their lives no matter what anybody says or what is in the news. Nobody can force their beliefs onto a young person, it just wont work. All any parent can do is set an example and hope that the child follows it. Stop pretending that young people are making choices because of what they read or see. Everbody makes mistakes and try's things as they grow up and nobody can ever change that. Thats life!

I smoked because my friends did and it was 'cool' not because some advertisement said it was. Kids don't respond to ads in the ways most adults think. What really carries a product is peer absorption and judgment.

This is not really a scientific study to see if kids start smoking because of clever images. It is a scientific study to show just how stupid people are who read fake medical news surveys. The fact that you all have now seen the clever work of these internet ad pushers means that twenty-five percent of you will make an online purchase of cheap Viagra within the next four years. Fully seventeen percent of you will search for online news exclusively on the internet for the rest of your lives. Pay attention to today's article "Keys for watching the State of the Union", it will teach you what to think about our great leader's valliant efforts to pull his head out of his rear end in the face of having it handed to him in November. Do not look at the graphics though, thirty four percent of you will become tempted to purchase Sam's Club size bottles of hand sanitizer.