I’m sure most people will agree that the easiest way to keep the smoking population as marginal as possible, is to advise teenagers and young adults not to start smoking in the first place. Also stopping them from buying smokes is a good idea, personally I like this method of identification.

The problem is; teenagers tend to not listen very much to us “old hags” trying to tell them that smoking is just not worth it.

These arguments should be quite familiar:

- Cancer and stuff only happens to old people.

- By the time I get old, there will probably be a cure anyway.

- Everyone knows you get fat if you don’t smoke.

- And smoking is just so Coool!

Until now: Finnish scientists have now found out that teenagers who smoke actually have MORE risk of gaining weight around their midsection than non-smokers. I’ll repeat: smoking makes you fatter!

So now there’s really no good reason to smoke at all! HAH HAH!

Ooh, unless you already have the Fat Gene…