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you obviously have never raised children to adulthood if you are still blaming your parents
you obviously have never raised children to adulthood if you are still blaming your parents
I have a daugther but no she aint an adult yet... And no i dont blame my parents... But i do se the overprotecting parents f-up their kids by wrapping them up in bubblewrap
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No offence meant Dusif ... however, choices our children make in their teenage years cannot be solely made by parents ... leading by example helps, however, they ultimately choose their own path into adulthood.
Even children of the most irresponsible parents, can go on to make smart choices and vice versa.
Cheers and Happy New Year
I'm not sure how I fall on this one. I think it's a cute ad. Santa DID smoke a pipe, so the children should be happy that he feels better than he did when he smoked...
But I'm pretty dang sure that he ain't clenching no MVP2 with a Protank on it in his teeth. Ouch!
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!
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indeed ... Santa has been smoking since time immemorial (search google for 'santa smoking')
they would have done better showing him with an e-pipe, it may have not raised as much "out cry"
the hysterics of the public are sometimes too ridiculous and often too much to bear
I see this in a variety of ways.
A) It was a slow news day and an opportunity to demonize vaping; both from media and antz.
B) Every year, for the last 50 years, Santa has been the spokesperson for every manufacturer and retail outlet from the day after Halloween to New Years.
C) Freedom of speech not banned by our government can, and should still, be permitted.
D) I'm betting this will go over the heads of most children, and that most kids see Santa as the deliverer of new automobiles and prefers M&Ms.
A) It was a slow news day and an opportunity to demonize vaping; both from media and antz.
B) Every year, for the last 50 years, Santa has been the spokesperson for every manufacturer and retail outlet from the day after Halloween to New Years.
C) Freedom of speech not banned by our government can, and should still, be permitted.
D) I'm betting this will go over the heads of most children, and that most kids see Santa as the deliverer of new automobiles and prefers M&Ms.
The gosh darn left wing and their war on Christmas. Santa's white kids. So is Jesus.
To be serious, though...
Christmas isn't about Santa in the US. Santa is for children. Saint Nicholas lived in Greece and didn't hand out mass amounts of presents to children every year; he preformed a bunch of miracles and stuff, and secretly left people tiny gifts (the Greek poor... not low to upper class white Americans). White Santa smoking has been iconic since his inception. He's smoking a pipe, though. Pipes are now somewhat of a niche market, but it makes Santa more human, easier to believe, iconic, and wise. That's our association with pipe smoking generally.
The FoxNews farce "War On Christmas" makes all these religious or otherwise very Conservative folks froth at the mouth with resent and anger every time Santa's image is changed (without getting in Jesus stuff). We are in the year 2013. Santa is an icon to children - his sleigh should run on renewable energy and he should be paying his elves a livable wage, and he should have a gender equal and should not be affiliated with any Church, and should probably be racially ambiguous. He may need to be smoking a e-cigarette depending on safety studies vs. tobacco.
To be serious, though...
Christmas isn't about Santa in the US. Santa is for children. Saint Nicholas lived in Greece and didn't hand out mass amounts of presents to children every year; he preformed a bunch of miracles and stuff, and secretly left people tiny gifts (the Greek poor... not low to upper class white Americans). White Santa smoking has been iconic since his inception. He's smoking a pipe, though. Pipes are now somewhat of a niche market, but it makes Santa more human, easier to believe, iconic, and wise. That's our association with pipe smoking generally.
The FoxNews farce "War On Christmas" makes all these religious or otherwise very Conservative folks froth at the mouth with resent and anger every time Santa's image is changed (without getting in Jesus stuff). We are in the year 2013. Santa is an icon to children - his sleigh should run on renewable energy and he should be paying his elves a livable wage, and he should have a gender equal and should not be affiliated with any Church, and should probably be racially ambiguous. He may need to be smoking a e-cigarette depending on safety studies vs. tobacco.
Ridiculous, yeah let's make vaping an even bigger target to ban by thinking just because this company is trying to appeal to kids, we all are.
I think the ad is brilliant. It got people talking, and that's the entire point of advertising.
BTW: Where were all the anti-cig peeps when the "Lord of the Rings, I, II, and III" hit the screen? Or maybe they took into consideration that Middle Earth was an imaginary place with imaginary occupants. *SAVE THE CHILDREN*
Santa smoking a pipe did NOT influence me to start smoking.
Wake up, people, children are NOT little duplicates of yourselves. They think, they choose, they do what they're going to do REGARDLESS of who, what, where, and how they are brought up. My 2 kids are perfect examples, one doesn't deserve the air she breaths even at the age of almost 33, and my son at 26 would make any parent awesomely proud.
Maybe the same parents who teach their kids about Santa should realize they are BLATANTLY lying to their kid, and when it comes to everything else AFTER they find out you LIED to them, why would they believe anything else you told them? Cause I sure as **** didn't trust a thing my folks told me after that major buzz kill.
How many kids look at billboards!?!?!?!
BTW: Where were all the anti-cig peeps when the "Lord of the Rings, I, II, and III" hit the screen? Or maybe they took into consideration that Middle Earth was an imaginary place with imaginary occupants. *SAVE THE CHILDREN*
Santa smoking a pipe did NOT influence me to start smoking.
Wake up, people, children are NOT little duplicates of yourselves. They think, they choose, they do what they're going to do REGARDLESS of who, what, where, and how they are brought up. My 2 kids are perfect examples, one doesn't deserve the air she breaths even at the age of almost 33, and my son at 26 would make any parent awesomely proud.
Maybe the same parents who teach their kids about Santa should realize they are BLATANTLY lying to their kid, and when it comes to everything else AFTER they find out you LIED to them, why would they believe anything else you told them? Cause I sure as **** didn't trust a thing my folks told me after that major buzz kill.
How many kids look at billboards!?!?!?!
NHS group call to ban children watching 'smoking' films
*Edit* Love this quote:
It's exactly about being a busybody
Ok, here's another: Smoking 'bad as swearing' in film
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No offence meant Dusif ... however, choices our children make in their teenage years cannot be solely made by parents ... leading by example helps, however, they ultimately choose their own path into adulthood.
Even children of the most irresponsible parents, can go on to make smart choices and vice versa.
Cheers and Happy New Year
I do realise that... But its a parents job to guide and teach... If a kid is wrapped up and protected from the world its gonna be exciting when they discover it and they wont know how to deal with it... They should be prepared not protected...
Im so sick of the whole "oh they cant say/do that! Think of the children!" Attitude...
If people would at least teach their kids a good sense of right and wrong it would be so much easier living in this world, but its so much easier pointing fingers saying that the reason the kid took a bad decision was because of a freakin billboard
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When I saw the title of this thread, I thought someone didn't like a new holiday e-liquid.......
all I see and feel is some Vaping company using (stealing?) somebody elses jingle in their ad. Bad business practice on the stealing the jingle...
I mean, c'mon Santa Vaping? I grew up singing about how Santa banged my mom, and how he dodged a manslaughter charge for killing Grandma. I think Santa has been doing some very naughty things this past century... And I forgot he should even be on the Sex Offender Registry for watching children in their bedroom.
While I think it's obvious that this billboard is intended for adults, not children who generally stop believing in Santa at a reading level advanced enough to even know what the word "vaping" could ever mean, I think the phrase "I don't always vape" is more of a negative connotation than a vaping Santa. It's like saying Santa thinks vaping is naughty and rarely does it. It's like saying his pipe is what he should still smoke.
I don't know about anyone else, but the Santa with a pipe image is virtually used everywhere in the world. Kids don't freak out about that. They could care less about his pipe. They know it's an activity of older men and that's all it is to them. They don't even know what vaping is, and they sure can't read a billboard and understand what the advertisment is all about. They probably think it's for a restaurant or something that says "Merry Christmas" in an adult way.
I don't know about anyone else, but the Santa with a pipe image is virtually used everywhere in the world. Kids don't freak out about that. They could care less about his pipe. They know it's an activity of older men and that's all it is to them. They don't even know what vaping is, and they sure can't read a billboard and understand what the advertisment is all about. They probably think it's for a restaurant or something that says "Merry Christmas" in an adult way.
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