Re: virus: Tabacco mind virus

Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 2 Aug 1997 03:26:46 +0100


In message <Pine.SUN.3.96.970801133944.14252C-100000@eskimo.com>, Eva-
Lise Carlstrom <eva-lise@eskimo.com> writes

>I hope this clarifies my position on cigarette advertising, far afield tho
>it's gone. The outright lies that cigarette advertisers have told, where
>they deny health risks, are far more reprehensible than their general
>(still bad) encouragement of smoking. None of it is the same as murder,
>IMHO--It's more like trying to talk someone into committing suicide, which
>is a really nasty thing to do but not illegal, so far as I know.

I cant believe so many of you are being duped by such
intellectual sidestepping as tobacco plc is engaging in. Especially at
this time when they are about to use the same techniques to kill
millions more people in the third world.

Tony