Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Ban mentioning or depicting tobacco products in every public medium.

There's a simple, easy way to gradually prevent the majority of kids from starting smoking, although the industry will fight it tooth and nail behind the scenes. Ban any photo, or video, or mention of cigarettes in any public medium.

The photo shoot featuring Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame holding a cigarette in almost all the shots did more to start teens smoking than any other advertising or 'placement'. Mad Men helped gets countless more started. There are HUNDREDS of popular songs that feature mentions of cigarettes and clearly make smoking seem like it is cool and rebellious, and teens brains go through a period of instinctual, uncontrollable rebellion.

It is this fact of human brain development and our highly addictive nature that the tobacco industry feeds off of, addicting impressionable kids before they have the capacity to resist. Join the lobby against Big Tobacco now.