Is it hilarious and fitting that Phillip Morris funds thetruth.com?

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I am channeling my inner teenager, and he is saying that anti-smoking campaigns aimed at teenagers make him want to smoke.

By this point everyone is fully aware that smoking is unhealthy, detrimental, generally frowned upon, won't make you cool or popular, and is largely gross. These campaigns make these facts even more trite, to the point where they can be easily dismissed. In a strange way, it is almost beneficial for Phillip Morris to fund such things. They can appear to be funding a public good while at the same forming a new callous generation of defiant smokers.

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tobacco is just seen as a pointless disgusting habit.

Sorry, but there is such a thing as a nicotine buzz. I'm not saying that smoking isn't largely a disgusting habit, but if there weren't such a thing as a nicotine buzz I would never have continued to smoke and thus become addicted. Again, I'm not advocating that people smoke or that it's not gross or whatever, but I hear this little snippet again and again from your types and it's simply not true.