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I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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