I’m not sure whether you read english very well or not, but if you re-read over my post, I wished you the best of health. I would never wish what I have gone through on anyone, despite their ignorance. You seem to have an unnatural talent for reinterpretation. I confess to needing some help in understanding your spin.

It’s true, young people often don’t have your super-human ability to just say no to harmful products. That is why advertising has been curtailed in most civilized areas of the world, to protect the vulnerable. You seem to imply that people with addictions deserve the consequences.

As for the appearance of the cars, this really has less to do with the brand, and more to do with the modern age of product placement. It was a group of blind idiots within AIG that approved Renault’s latest colour scheme. The same group could easily have been working for Mild Seven. JPS looked cool? Who’s to say Nike wouldn’t come up with the same gold on black? The problem is the crowding in of other sponsors. What I’m hearing is that people miss the clean look of a single sponsor. Those days are over, child.

and when he’s motivated and focused

“when” is a problem..

“For next year we have Raikkonen, Massa, Fisichella, Badoer, Gene, and I hope Michael Schumacher, so we have a bench as long as Real Madrid’s.

“We have two great champion with the 2007 champion and the man who was 2008 champion for 15 seconds when he crossed the line. So I think we have two extraordinary drivers.”
-Luca di Montezemolo

But bear in mind, it is all relative. There are some people who don’t even care about their children, therefore have no input on their behaviour. They let those kids get their “life experience” by themselves, which may lead them to the wrong way.

I mean, here in Brazil there’s just a lot of sexual-inducing things on television (like TV Globo’s novels) and “music” (like Rio de Janeiro’s ‘funk’, which is a complete and utter disgrace). But anyway, kids and teens are drawn to it. They find it cool, because it is a adult thing, and kids at this age really want to be like adults (resulting in smoker kids and pregnant teenagers, and maybe even the criminal of tomorrow). Don’t take your own daughter’s example, because this may not be the reality in other families.

When I joined high school, at the age of 13, I was just devastated to see kids at the same age of mine smoking.

In the end, if the parents doesn’t have a proper input over their kids, who has? You guessed it: propaganda. Of course the parents shoud do they part, but the community and the media (including sports advertising) should do too.