R-Truth Gets Heat From Tobaccofree.org Exec

As many of you saw on Raw, R-Truth turned heel and attacked his longtime friend John Morrison.  Part of the angle had him smoke a cigarette (which I thought was stupid) which was supposed to show him getting back into the nasty habit and thus making him a bad guy because he smokes, stupid I know.  Anyway, the Executive of the company Tobaccofree.org is upset with the WWE for allowing him to smoke on a PG rated show.

The WWE responded to the outrage by stating that they were showing in a bad light and that it was simply used for the storyline.  They also claim that there are many examples of smoking in PG television shows.  I happen to agree with the WWE on this one.  While the angle was stupid, it was within their right to do this angle, they weren't encouraging kids to smoke and the fact that they had a villain doing it certainly didn't make smoking look cool to little kids in my opinion.