I don't agree - not popular here on Corfid, but that's how it is. My son is 21. He smokes. He knows it's bad, but he started - got hooked - and hasn't been able to stop. I'm sure that a combination of direct peer pressure and the subtle influences of our culture are the reason he took it up in the first place. The fewer "stars" the next generation sees holding cigarettes, the fewer positive reinforcements for what is a deadly habit.
So, if you want to collect the old version of the picture, that's fine, but I would prefer to see new CD artwork without the cigarettes. When somebody's kid - rather than parent - ends up with a lung ailment because of smoking, it won't seem so "historical".
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