As the nation debates the implications of the raised legal age for purchasing cigarettes, today's news highlights another issue desperately in need of consideration.
How old should children be before we thrust them into the media?
The latest development in the Britney Spears meltdown is a painful reminder of the teenage years which the media has stolen from a little girl from Mississippi.
Children need to make mistakes without major implications.
Only then can they learn.
Every mistake and upset Britney has made has been played out infront of the world's media, and the implications have been enormous.
With two failed marriages, and two children before she'd even transitioned from girl to woman, Britney's mistakes, like her whole life, have played out on a massive scale.
It was only going to be a matter of time before the little girl hidden beneath the identity created for her by agents, her record label and her parents, collapsed under the strain of the enormous burden.
And now that she's fallen, her 'support network' is nowhere to be seen.
She isn't the first child star to dissolve in her twenties, and she won't be the last.
Lindsay Lohan, Mary-Kate Olsen, Nicole Ritchie, Michael Jackson, Drew Barrymore, River Phoenix, Judy Garland .... does the world really need any more sad examples?
It's as if the world sits with bated breath waiting for the stars to fall
Or is that a morbid part of the attraction?
This year ITV favourite X Factor lowered its age of entry to just 14 years old.
At 14 I was worrying about my first kiss, impending GCSEs and spots .... is it really fair to add international fame and media scrutiny into that equation?
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