Everyone knows, kids if they are going to try smoking, they do so to try show off with people at school. They think it is somehow "cool" (It isn't), they think it is hard, they think it is adult - so they try it.
Also no-one likes smoking at first, you actually have to force yourself to get used to it, so when you think logically, it's crazy to ever bother.
Then there's the parents, puffing away whilst saying to their kids "don't you ever do this". Right!
I've met very few people who smoke, who didn't wish they could give up. It does absolutely nothing for you but empty your bank balance, make you smell and damage your health to a greater or lesser extent.
As for banning the display of the stuff, will this really do anything?
On the other hand, I really think the smoking ban in pubs was barking - driving away their best customers. It would have happened eventually anyway, in a crazy litigacious society, I would have said about the time customers started sueing landlords................which would have eventually happened..............probably
