Recently a trading standards campaign was launched against retailers selling alcohol, cigarettes and age restricted films and games against retailers during the easter break. Obviously it is important to protect children from themselves, children are running around happy slapping, facebook bullying and stabbing each other, imagine what they would be like if they had seen a film like 'nightmare on elm street', or 'I know who killed me'. while smoking cigerettes and drinking bacardi breezers with a PSP playing manhunt 2 the world would probably look something like this.

or even like this.

but not this.

A recent experiment took identical twins and brought one of them up away from the influence of underage drinking, smoking, age restricted films & computer games. (pictured below)

The pure twin.
His brother was fed a diet of alcopops, mayfair lights, Grand Theft Auto, and ended up looking like this.

And eventually this.

Sorry.
The need to protect children has never been more evident with the failure to do so resulting in antisemitism and films about forgotten empires and dead religion founders in dead languages. and cancer.

 
Trading standards need to look at both sides of the coin, though. Retailers are being lied to by record companies, in a cynical attempt to shift more units... for example, the westlife CD 'unbreakable'.
 
The CD's title would clearly imply that the actual product is incapable of being broken, that it somehow had some captain scarlet type power to not break in anyway shape or form.

...Which if you look above is clearly not true.
Another sickening example of false advertising is the recent CD by Keith Urban, the title of the album is defying gravity.

Quite an achievement you might think, but after sending the picture to a laboratory for further testing we discovered...

This proves that record companys will go to great lengths to pull the wool over the retailers eyes.
Just before christmas, 2 albums were released within a week of each other both called circus, one by Britney Spears and the other by Take that. An independent watchdog did tests on both of these albums to see which were more circus-like.
 vs
After months of testing and with few clowns, animals, human cannonballs or general carney folk; the results were close, but here they are...

No.
So, the main crux of this blog was to stop children from killing themselves with age restricted games and films, because otherwise there would be no children left to kill each other or they'd all be dead from cancer. But also that trading standards should tell record companies to stop lying because basically, telling lies isn't very nice, its almost as bad as swearing.