To smoke or not?

I don’t get it. They get so happy to tackle a smoking problem in this article. I wonder who they surveyed. They should come and survey the kids in the cities. Half of the kids quit because they want to and I don’t think it’s inaccessibility to smoking paraphernalia that is the cause of the decline. If you want to smoke, you’ll find away to get around it. I worked in a store and older kids just buy it for the younger kids. In the Pennsylvania smoking law, no where does it say that minors are restricted from smoking, just says that they can’t purchase it. You can get arrested for selling cigarettes to minors but police can’t arrest the minors who are smoking, if they catch them smoking. That’s a twisted way of putting things into perspective. It’s like saying something but doing something else which defeats the whole purpose.
I live by a busy road, with a high school on its side and police cars driving by left and right. All the stores are near there, and the high school, middle school, and elementary schools are near to each other. So when the school lets out all the “should be” role models for the younger kids are smoking and they give it to them as they pass by. You see smoking groups by each store. Then you see the police, just ignoring them. I think if you use reverse psychology, you have more of a chance to make kids stop smoking, by allowing them to purchase it legally. They’ll get tired of it once it becomes readily available. I mean, the whole thrill other than the addiction of smoking is because you are doing something against what society deems you can’t. So kids are at the age where they like breaking the rules. If there is no rule, they have nothing to break and it’s not fun anymore. Smoking will not be cool anymore. In certain areas, sometimes having no rules is more effective than having rules to follow. I mean who follows rules anyway, if we fully abide by them, we’ll all be at the bottom of the social ladder. It comes down to that whether to smoke or not, it’s their choice.