I think I'd rather see a kid start smoking weed rather than cigs. I don't know, cigerettes have been found to have a whole sh#t load of carcinegines in them and yet (as far as I've read) weed may have like half to quarter the amount if that. If there so against it, then they should make beer and cigs illegal because they kill and beer makes a person go insane, get physically addicted to it, kills brain cells the liver and the heart. I've not heard of weed doing that, and in most cases it helps make life managable, not take you away from it but rather give you a way to pull your self away from the madness and really think about what you should do.