The cigarette police are at it again. The same minds that gave us thetruth.com and its many annoying TV ads are in an uproar over a segment on WWE’s Monday Night Raw where untalented mid-carder Ron “The Truth” Killings smoked a cigarette as part of his heel turn. Anti-smoking activist Patrick Reynolds is calling for R Truth to apologize for this.
It really gets tiring when these cigarette police think that smoking is some magic bullet that will have a mesmerizing effect on children. Just because they see an athlete or actor smoking kids will piss on whatever good information/advice they have on the contrary and light up the same day.
First of all Pat Reynolds obviously doesn’t understand wrestling events are staged. R Truth was instructed to smoke by the WWE writing team and possibly by WWE chairman Vince McMahon himself. For all we know R Truth may not even smoke in his real life. Also, it doesn’t appear Reynolds watched the whole segment where R Truth was belittled for ruining his conditioning by smoking and getting booed by pretty much the entire arena, including all the kids in attendance.
It was probably a much more effective negative depiction of tobacco than any of those awful The Truth commercials that made me want to bludgeon a street performer. Reynolds may think seeing a marginally gifted broken record of Ebonics light up was too glamorous but I can assure him that no one, including impressionable children, is going to be influenced by R Truth. Now if SpongeBob or one of the American Idol contestants lights up then we may have problems.
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