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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
For some reason, even though the dangers are well documented and spelled out very clearly, I regularly encounter young folk(maybe twelve or thirteen) smoking blatantly on their way home from school.....in school uniform with the name of the school clearly emblazoned on their jumper(very few of these children appear to possess a coat, even in the most inclement of weather).
Perhaps they are suffering from that thing that seems to afflict youth - they think they are immortal - that cancer and heart disease are what 'old folk' get.
When the smokers of my generation were children.......the 'bobby' would give you a cuff round the lug hole and take you home and tell your parents what he had stopped you from doing. You would then get a hiding from your father for doing the deed and an extra slap for having to be brought home by the 'bobby'.
So young smokers back then did it secretly.
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That's the problem with kids of today,they live in the "touch me and i'll sue you" era.
The "hiding","slap" you mentioned are pleasant words for the 'kicking' I got for bringing the police to the door ( I felt far from immortal)
(didn't happen again though)
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I believe education,not incrimination is the answer (maybe the odd "slap" to help it sink in)
