Smoking Bans Don't Save Children.

Smoking bans don't save children. That's obvious.

Every anti-smoking group claims that the rate of children who smoke is on the rise. "That's why we need more bans," they say. Yet at no time in history have Americans had so many smoking bans forced on them than as right now. Common Sense will tell you that the smoking bans can't possibly be working.

The problem is very simple. People don't know how to raise children. If children are smoking more, it is because parents' are doing a lower quality job at raising their children. Some people are totally failing in their responsibilities to raise their children. They put their kids in front of the high-definition, wide-screen babysitter and ignore them. Children can't read, can't write, take drugs, smoke tobacco, drink liquor, have sex and are generally not being raised correctly because their parents' have failed them. If a child smokes, the parent is at fault.

Banning adults from buying cigarettes isn't going to make people who don't know how to raise children into perfect parents.

People need to take charge of their own lives and the lives of their offspring. Americans don't need and don't want a socialist state telling us what morality is. Just because a small minority of people (probably all those non-smokers with their lower brain wave activity) are too stupid and lazy to take care of their kids, why should the rights of legal adults be removed?