Blowing Smoke

 

Every year the tobacco companies peddle their toxins to a
willing and eager public.  Why smoking is so popular is simply
beyond me.  Some say that it is a personal choice to kill
yourself by inhaling small doses of cancer everyday and others
say that it must be stopped.  Personally I don't really care if
you kill yourself no matter how you do it as long as it doesn't
affect me (as you may have gathered from my Opinion forum).
However, when I have to smell, breethe, and be otherwise
exposed to the risk that smokers pose to themselves and
others I get a little upset.  One reason that I get upset is that I
tend to get terrible migraines when I have to smell someone's
smoke and the other is that I believe that clean air is good air.
Well, enough ranting for now.  Below you will find links to
some of the people who have expressed their anti-smoking
opinions in more eloquent ways than I have here.  Enjoy.

 

This Modern World a cartoon by Tom Tomorrow
Bob Dole On Tobacco (7-1-96)
Smokers: The New Voting Block (9-23-96)
Sugar Smokies (10-14-96)
Corporate Image (11-18-96)

 

Mother Jones
"Tobacco Under Fire":  the censored ABC transcript and QT video
"Tobacco Enemy Number One":  war between Tobacco and the FDA
"Joe Camel's Tracks":  exploiting a young market
"Secondhand Mail":  results of a mail in campaign to OSHA
"The Tobacco Election":  how tobacco politics work
"Tobacco Dole":  and tobacco scandal info
"Our Good Friend, the Governor":  tobacco political funding
"A Case of Great Minds Thinking Alike?":  political puppets of tobacco
"The Wilson Memo":  Gov. Pete Wilson: bed fellow of tobacco
"Censored PSA":  article and QT video of a PSA censored by Wilson
Links to more Anti-Smoking sites:  too many to list here

 

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