They know better because they think they are better
In the Sunday, March 23, 2014 edition of the "Knoxville News Sentinel", there is an article titled "Students use body bags to show tobacco's effects". According to this article, high schoolers volunteered to lay on top of body bags, with a statistic filled tombstone by their heads, on Market Square, as a physical show of the dangers of tobacco.
This is a project of the Knox County Youth Health Board. According to the article, Kathryn Burklund set this up. She is the public health education coordinator for Tobacco Use Prevention.
Breaking new: Use of tobacco products could endanger your health.
These kids are learning a lesson here. Stupid and pointless gestures get approval from adults and media coverage. How else would the next generation of smarmy scolds get trained. These kids are the ones' who will be hectoring us in the future about how to live our lives to suit them. Don't think, just do as your told.
If you cannot picture what a smarmy scold is, think of the movie "Animal House". You know the guys in the fraternity Omega Theta Pi. The fraternity that was not "Animal House" Yeah, Neidermeyer and Marmalard.
That is who these kids are going to grow up to be.
Remind me to stay away from Market Square.
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