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*** Ironically, the fact of that one matter is adults are just as helpless to avoid breathing in cigarette smoke as children. |
*** Ironically, the fact of that one matter is adults are just as helpless to avoid breathing in cigarette smoke as children. |
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** Fast food companies and other "junk food" distributors have been facing increasing criticism for advertising products toward children. Some groups and individuals advocate banning "Happy Meals" and similar food combos to "protect the children." True, parents are usually the ones buying that food; but fast food places ''will'' allow children to buy food if they can pay for it, and McDonalds has provided food for school breakfasts. Vending machines on school grounds are special targets of frustration, since children ''choose'' to buy junk food and soda from them. |
** Fast food companies and other "junk food" distributors have been facing increasing criticism for advertising products toward children. Some groups and individuals advocate banning "Happy Meals" and similar food combos to "protect the children." True, parents are usually the ones buying that food; but fast food places ''will'' allow children to buy food if they can pay for it, and McDonalds has provided food for school breakfasts. Vending machines on school grounds are special targets of frustration, since children ''choose'' to buy junk food and soda from them. |
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* Averted by the [https://prostasia.org/ Prostasia Foundation], which states that “Before you can think of the children, you have to be prepared to think.” |
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