I think that yes, it could be an example of diverting peer pressure.
If your peers are forcing you to smoke, but you don't want to, you could say this and hope that this would be a sufficient answer, it diverts your unwillingness to smoke to your parents, and so the conflict with a peer is also diffused.
One of the most important teachings of Confucius was : <span>People should take responsibility for themselves and others
Confucius believes that in order to achieve a true peace, all people must be willing to give up a certain amount of their personal gain for the purpose of helping others who're suffering.</span>
<span>Surgeons have carried out the world's first transplant of a fully synthetic organ, a windpipe created using the patient's own stem cells and a fully artificial scaffold. The operation was performed on a 36-year-old cancer patient a month ago at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.</span><span>Jul 7, 2011</span>
