Anyways, my point is that the traditional Korean girl (all my cousins back in the homeland)would rather get married and look good in front of guys, so the tobacco industry is up the creek with no rice paddle!

I don't know if that makes me sad or happy.

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I asked her about this and she said it is nothing new. Their society is very conservative compared to ours, but young women are constantly driven to be thin and look Western. She said most of them do smoke, mostly to keep from eating and to handle stress. Young people there are under a tremendous amount of pressure from their parents and society to be fashionable, smart and successful.

This must be like shooting fish in a barrel for big tobacco, and I'm a smoker myself.

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Ha, eff you big tobacco (she says quietly, barely a week free of smoking...)

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I...uh...what?

Gotta protect those wimmin-folk. They're just so simple that they can't help but respond to the big bad advertisers' lures.

(I can get behind the children thing, seeing as it's actually illegal for the kids to smoke 'em anyhow, but...the women thing just boggles.)

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