WWE News: Anti-smoking advocate demands R-Truth publicly apologize for lighting up on Raw

TMZ is reporting that anti-smoking activist, and grandson of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds, Patrick Reynolds is demanding that R-Truth publicly apologize for smoking on Monday night's Raw.

Reynolds, who is the Executive Director of TobaccoFree.org, said, "For him to smoke in front of [children] is irresponsible. At best, it's thoughtless, and at worst, if he calculated appealing to kids by posing as a bad-boy outlaw, it's evil."

Shore's Slant: For those who have asked how WWE could get away with smoking on PG television, WWE's position is that they were showing smoking in a negative light which is consistent with other PG programming. I wonder if that's the line they use with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin drinking beer.