http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/11274 A project of the International Society for Individual Liberty Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:16:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/11274#comment-179838 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:45:39 +0000 http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/11274#comment-179838 Obviously an even greater effort is required to keep kids from starting smoking. Prices of cigarettes need to increase, fines for selling to minors should increase as well as licences to sell tobacco being revoked if there are sales to minors. Advertising needs to be banned, or at least countered if bans violate rights. Tobacco companies are now using the internet to advertize to kids by using videos that glamorize smoking. Videos that show the true harm of smoking need to be posted in large number on the net in places like Youtube to counter them. Smoking bans seem to help reduce the numbers of smokers as well. These have to be expanded to include every place where there are non-smokers and especially every workplace. Obviously an even greater effort is required to keep kids from starting smoking. Prices of cigarettes need to increase, fines for selling to minors should increase as well as licences to sell tobacco being revoked if there are sales to minors. Advertising needs to be banned, or at least countered if bans violate rights. Tobacco companies are now using the internet to advertize to kids by using videos that glamorize smoking. Videos that show the true harm of smoking need to be posted in large number on the net in places like Youtube to counter them. Smoking bans seem to help reduce the numbers of smokers as well. These have to be expanded to include every place where there are non-smokers and especially every workplace.

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