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Prestoff posted...

It's definately necessary propaganda (D.A.R.E.) because tobacco is highly addictive and hooked on it at a young age only makes it harder to get rid of the addiction, even though the reason most of the anti-drug programs were cringey as fuck is because many of them are financed by tobacco companies themselves. Like my grandpa smoked cigarettes because it was a normal custom for boys to become men, in Vietnam, to smoke it by the time you hit 16 years old. It really wasn't until he came to America that he gave up on it by going cold turkey (I don't know how the fuck he managed to though).

But yeah I say it as someone who always associated all my favorite fictional characters as cool when they did stuff like the way they act (rebelious), how they dressed (sunglasses), a cigarette in their mouth/hands, etc. So I'm definately aware I'm one of the people who has been condition to think those associated characteristics were cool, but just because something is cool isn't going to be something I'm going to imitate.

Cigarettes and youth smoking are actually still a huge problem in Asia. when american companies weren't allowed to market here they moved overseas.