"Smoking Smarties" Has Parents Fuming

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Ok I have an issue with this story. I think its INSANE!!! Blown way out of proportion. It's aiding this over-sensitive world we live in today!!!

First of all - if you are NOT doing your job as a parent and talking to your kids - you are the only one to blame here.

What was this kid doing so wrong?? He was first of all a KID! He was imitating the world he sees. He was trying to belong, fit in and be cool. Come on... even us adults still do stupid shit for these reasons and we know better. Really...

Yes as a kid I bought and did pretend smoking with candy cigarettes. Did I smoke later - YES!!! Did I also do drugs later... YES!!!

Is it because I was allowed to buy and pretend to smoke candy cigarettes... FUCK NO!!!

My choices were my choices.. I smoked because my parent did, my friends did... I wanted to fit it. At the end of the day I was responsible. My parent should have talked to me about this... My path to smoking and drugs would have happened with or without the damn candy cigerettes.

Now do I do either today - NO!!! Again I took responsiblity and stopped both years and years ago.

I have a 16 year old boy at home... does he do either NO!! Does he even want to??? NO!!! Why!?!?!? Cause we talk constantly about everything. I do not believe in keeping anything from him. If its not taboo, there is no desire to run to it. So we talk about everything. Imagine that....WE TALK!!! Does that mean someday he won't try it??? I don't know. He might. But I have laid the foundation and the information is out there. The rest is up to him. He KNOWS the dangers and repercussions. I have done my job!!

Am I saying its a good thing to have on the market... No. But for god sakes... we have play guns on the market too... thats far more dangerous then this. Think about all the things on the market or out in the open that aid us to another way of thinking or affect our behavior... sexy ads... language on TV shows... hell seeing other people walk around with TATTOOS AND PEIRCINGS... *shifty eyes* Cause we are bad you know.

If we start putting everything in a closet that would aid anyone else to think outside the confines of their own mind... then everything including each other would be GONE!!!

I really wish the damn world would STOP pointing fingers at everyone and everything else and we as a people would start taking responsibility for ourselves.

For god sakes Parents, do your job and stop expecting everyone else to raise your children. If you want your kids to know the dangers...TALK TO THEM!!

This was just ridiculous... *shakes head*