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John Mellencamp’s 14-year-old son, Speck, made a deal with his dad: If he could get a million people to join this Facebook group he created, pops would have to quit smoking.

At last check, Specks group, group called “1,000,000 to join, my dad john mellencamp will quit smoking.” had over 59,000  members.

Speck, 14, writes on the Facebook page, “i made a deal with my dad that if i get a 1,000,000 to join this group he will quit smoking.”

“I quit drinking in ‘71 and quit doing drugs in ‘72,” Mellencamp told Rolling Stone. “I didn’t like the feeling of not being in control.”

Mellencamp’s only vice is his well-known cigarette habit. He used to smoke four packs a day until a 1994 heart attack forced him to cut down to about a pack a day, and he’s frequently spoken out about his disdain for drugs.

“If you want to stick needles in your arms, go ahead and fucking do it,” Mellencamp told Bill Holdship of Creem Magazine in 1984, when asked about his views on drugs. “You’re the one that’s going to pay the consequences. I don’t think it’s a good idea, and I sure don’t advocate it, but I’m not going to judge people. Hell, if that was the case, you wouldn’t like anyone in the music business because everyone’s blowing cocaine.”