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Stanton Glantz of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education stands by his claim, based on a study in The Lancet, that 52% of 10 to14-year-olds start smoking due to smoking they see in the movies. (That's not a typo--52%, more than half.)

There are a lot of ways to criticize the methodology of The Lancet piece, but why bother? The results are absurd on their face.

Here's my advice. If you're gonna do junk science, and you get a result that makes no sense, go back and do it again until you get something that comports with the real world. You'll still be wrong, but at least you won't embarrass yourself.