Anti-smoking activist Patrick Reynolds is not happy with WWE's R-Truth after he smoked a cigarette on last night's Raw. Reynolds, the Executive Director of TobaccoFree.org, wants Truth to publicly apologize for the stunt. Reynolds had the following to say to Truth...
"For him to smoke in front of [children] is irresponsible. At best, it's thoughtless, and at worst, if he calculated appealing to kids by posing as a bad-boy outlaw, it's evil. If he wants help in quitting, I'll be happy to be his personal coach."
The WWE issued the following statement in response...
"The negative effect smoking has on one's health and physical performance was a part of a storyline on last night's Monday Night Raw. Negative depictions of tobacco use on television are not unusual and can be seen on other TV-PG shows."
Raw's a show where people beat each other up for two hours straight and he's complaining about a heel smoking a cigarette? Are we supposed to shield kids from ever seeing someone smoke?Â
I hate people like this guy and I'm not even a smoker.
I really think that this a dumb story about a wrestler/entertainer, getting publicity from someone no one has heard of.
And the next thiing WWE will do is pull anything that has to do with Smoking, like for Example Bradshaw Smoking when he was a part of the APA, but that is the only one I know of right now. :?
But it's still dumb of this guy the Anti-Smoking Activist.
Amen to that, if parents don't like seeing people smoking, which can be see every [censored] day in the real world, don't let your children watch it. Let's face it, he is a heel, if anything it is showing that it is bad to smoke; because he is a heel.
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