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(Launch) - Part of the new campaign from the Partnership For a Drug-Free America is using Kiss to illustrate some of the costs associated with drug use. The ads say drug use costs the U.S. over $110 billion every year and it lists some things that could be done with that much money. "For $110 billion, you could send Kiss on tour to every major city in America and give everybody a free ticket," the poster reads. Over the years, Kiss frontmen Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have never hidden their feelings about drug use, even when their bandmates were involved. "When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity," Stanley said. "You're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway."
"I have no sympathy at all for anybody that doesn't have enough self-respect for themselves and for their bandmates, because when one guy decides that his dalliances with crazy things is more important than the welfare of his band, that guy doesn't deserve any success," Simmons said. "Because a team is a team and every guy's gotta carry the weight. You're only as good as your teammates." |