If you are dumb enough to pick up a fag and start smoking in this day and age, then you only prove Darwin was 100% correct. Saves lots of $$$ for the govt not to have to provide health care to the elderly.

In the UK the receipts from tax and duty on tobacco is estimated at roughly five times what it costs the NHS to treat smokers. 10 Billion GBP vs 2 Billion GBP.

What I have an issue with is somebody browsing youtube and deliberately watching and advert, seems weird to me.

Not so many people start smoking as adults. Not tobacco, anyway.

Otherwise, China, India, the Third World are where the market for tobacco habituation can be expanded.

@Spork

In countries that provide basic human rights such as free universal healthcare for all the financial strain on the health services far outweighs the tax income from smokers.

I am not surprised by this, as it's getting near impossible for tobacco companies to advertise anywhere. Their last bastion of advertising hope, magazines, sit dusty on store shelves now, as nobody can be bothered to buy them anymore what with the internet and all...

I know this is a tech site and not a tobacco discussion site, but with the amount of tax dollars the gov's collect from smokers every year, you would think that a little advertising by them would be ok, as long as it doesn't target children.

But I guess that's just proof of how the gov can say one thing and do another, as they are more than happy to collect all those tax dollars from smokers but want to ban smoking.

Go figure.

Smoking is bad, mmkay? It harms your lungs, makes your house and your mouth stink and even can shrink your wiener.

With that being said, all the anti-smoking propaganda gets on my nerves. People will quit smoking when they want it, not when you tell them.

Youtube is good for pirated shows AND tobacco ads, and each is equally protected.