Possibly my farewell post..........

[emilymiller1701]

Why in gods name would you guys give a "Cig" with the message eek
"A thin cigarette imported from a far away land. They are addictive and bad for your health but make you incredibly sexy." in the game?
ALOT of children and teenagers(like me, Im 15) use this place. Are you TRYING to get them to smoke and crap? evil mad
I am very offended and concerned by this. scream
Almost enough to give up the site(with my babies(fishies crying )) permentaly for both myself and my 10yr old sis. cry
I almost feel the need to report this to cybertipline or other watchgroups who protect kids online, as child endagerment or somthing. wahmbulance evil mad

--Emily
PS if this item can be removed or somehow blocked from minors or if admins will atleast talk to me about this, I MIGHT still stay on the site evil cry mad

[ox-Foxxy-xo]

One, your sister shouldnt be here :/ People under 13 arent allowed on the site
Two, having a cig item isnt bad and anyone that would want to smoke after seeing that description probably shouldnt be here in the first place
And three, rants belong in your journal [or possibly site feedback], not the Q&A

[Tamaratjuh]

first of your ten year old sister is not allowed on Gaia. If she has an accnount it should be banned.

Gaia is not a game and I don't like it when people say it is.

Gaia will not take the item out just for you. You can go to the pettitions forum to ask for it dough.
I don't think any teen wil go smoking just because of that anyway. Friends make you smoke not an online community like Gaia.

Ow and if you want to talk to a mod or something you can pm one or like I said go to the pettitions forum. There is just normal users like me here in the Q&A.
You can also go to the feedback forum to tell you own opinion.

[Aj Le Cumsicle]

its against the terms of service for anyone under 13 years of age to have a gaia account and i suggest you take this to site feedback if you have a problem. you would think that if people think 13 year olds are mature enough to see smoking in pg-13 movies they would be mature enough to have them on a pixel avatar site

[Abbacus]

Your 10 year old sister can and should be banned til her 13th birthday. She is not allowed on Gaia.
Also, following that, Gaia is PG-13. Cigarettes are perfectly legal game.
Don't like it? Ignore it. Gaia's not going to remove one harmless item because you got a little pissy about it.
Besides, anyone who's dumb enough to smoke because a single item on a forum site made them think it was cool, deserves every bit of lung cancer they get. neutral (IMHO.)
I personally found the description to be a bit of a throwback, to the days of innocence when no one knew about the harmful effects of nicotine, and when everyone smoked because it looked cool.
By the way, Gaia doesn't care if you leave. Your friends might, but as a corporation, one single lost customer out of the thousands gained daily doesn't mean much.

[xShawtyZx]

Striving to achieve...

I'm pretty sure the description was a joke/parody sort of thing- going back to the... 50's(?) when smoking was considered sexy. I doubt anybody is impressionable enough to start smoking just because a pixelated item says it's sexy. Especially when the "incredibly sexy" part is right after the "bad for your health" part xd

...100% Total Awesomeness!

[Kinny Fear]

ox-Foxxy-xo

Two, having a cig item isnt bad and anyone that would want to smoke after seeing that description probably shouldnt be here in the first place

Unless they have internet service at the crazy ward. rolleyes

[Butterfly Leeches]

... Grow up. Do you really think that an item description is going to make kids smoke if they don't want to? They'll get cigarettes if they want cigarettes. The item description doesn't have any influence. I happen to find cigarette smoke in old movies quite sexy because of the smoke tendrils image, but I don't smoke. Cigarettes are completely available to me, I could legally buy them, but just because some website or someone says they're sexy doesn't make me want to smoke.

[Izzy Van Helsing]

1- Your sister should not be here, but that's already been said.

2- There are FAR more mature items on here than that.

3- I know children younger than you who smoke.

4- Just because something is on the internet, and younger people are exposed to it, it doesn't mean they're going to imitate what they see.
Just yesterday, I saw a man try to go down an escalator in a wheelchair while rocking it back and forth. Didn't end well. Anyone stupid enough to imitate stuff like that is just subject to Darwin's theory of Natural Selection.

[Lady Kayura]

xShawtyZx

Striving to achieve...

I doubt anybody is impressionable enough to start smoking just because a pixelated item says it's sexy. Especially when the "incredibly sexy" part is right after the "bad for your health" part xd

...100% Total Awesomeness!

If anyone is that impressionable, it's probably against the TOS to be here.

OP, the cig is hardly the most offensive item here. Guess you've not seen the half nude items or the item with intestines hanging out.

[KawaiiKittenCalico]

If somebody is stupid enough to take up smoking because Gaia says it makes you "sexy" then they deserve to die a horrible painful death of lung cancer. Hopefully it will happen before they can pass on their stupid genes, too. Nobody with half a brain is going to take up smoking just because someone claims it's sexy, especially when most people are smart enough to know how completely disgusting it is.

[DownSight]

You're over reacting.
And anyone who is immature enough to start smoking thanks to an item on Gaia is too immature to be on here in the first place.
And many of the items, possibly the cigarettes but I have no proof on me, are requested by users. [Petitions, requests and what not.]

Peace out.

[Pilotslover]

Do you smoke because you see someone smoking on TV?

No didn't think so. rolleyes

If you're THAT impressionable then Gaia can do no worse then any other media source.

[Amusion]

Your sister is NOT allowed on gaia this is pg 13. Its a virtual item that has been around for a while. Gaia isnt forcing no one to smoke just by that :/

[Gundamu]

Pilotslover

Do you smoke because you see someone smoking on TV?

No didn't think so. rolleyes

If you're THAT impressionable then Gaia can do no worse then any other media source.

^This so damn hard^
It always amazes me how insane complaints like this sound when we have items made after things use solely for killing.
@OP: Go ahead and report it to on of those groups. They'll probably laugh.