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`Truth' Ads Should Keep Big Tobacco In Doghouse
Hartford Courant ^ | Feb 13 2002 | inside pitch

Posted on 02/13/2002 1:24:46 AM PST by 2Trievers

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It's tough to argue with the Lorillard Tobacco Co.'s explanation of the current dust-up over those in-your-face anti-smoking ads.

After all, says Lorillard spokesman Steve Watson, "What manufacturer of a legal consumer product in this country would remain silent when accused of adding dog urine to its product?"

Good question. I'm stumped.

So now, the combatants in the Tobacco Wars are poised for yet another court battle, and this one stands a good chance of watering down those aggressive - and apparently effective - smoking-prevention ads.

All because of that bit with the dog urine.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pufflist
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1 posted on 02/13/2002 1:24:46 AM PST by 2Trievers
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To: 2Trievers
'Morning, 2T.

Well, I guess you can find just about anything on the internet, even something about the health benefits of urea.

In the small amounts urea gets back into the body, it is purifying, clears up excess mucus and has a number of specific, very useful effects. Moreover, it has a wonderful healing and tonifying effect when applied to the skin. You can find urea in many skin products as one of the main components.

Try not to get too queasy.

What's next?

Big food?

Big autos?

Big clothing?

Big gub'mint? Nah, 'Mercans like their gub'mint big.

2 posted on 02/13/2002 1:50:27 AM PST by metesky
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To: metesky
Hey Met!

Best to you!

A world of wonderment, this internet ... truly amazing! Just don't get lost and forget to come home!

4 posted on 02/13/2002 2:09:59 AM PST by 2Trievers
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To: 2Trievers
Maybe Big Tobacco will wise up and leave out all that added crap they put in the smokes?
5 posted on 02/13/2002 2:12:55 AM PST by Rain-maker
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To: 2Trievers
It's about time. I hope they beat the sox off them!
6 posted on 02/13/2002 2:22:47 AM PST by Lion's Cub
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To: 2Trievers
The American Legacy Foundation - and its $500 million ad budget - was created out of the $246 billion legal settlement with Big Tobacco.

If those inane commercials is all that foundation is doing with their money, then the tobacco companies better go back and get their change. I knew the whole settlement was a rip off, but I didn't think the nico nazis would prove it so easily with those ads. If they want people to pay attention to their anti smoking message, then they should hire real advertising agencys. These ads look like they hired some high school kids ( or their own brood) for about ten bucks for the whole ad campaign.

7 posted on 02/13/2002 2:37:52 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: 2Trievers
My first smoke was through a corn-cob pipe. I blame General MacArthur...he made me do it.
8 posted on 02/13/2002 3:13:58 AM PST by Mr Ducklips
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To: Mr Ducklips
I always flinch when I here the anti-tobacco ads. They so blatantly lie. It is a clear indicator of how far sunk into depravity our country has fallen when producers can be forced to pay for false propaganda against their own product. It is the essense of evil.

I have no stock in tobacco companies, and I don't smoke, but the clear extortion racket of the tobacco settlement makes me ill.

9 posted on 02/13/2002 3:38:30 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
If the ads were also meant to talk to kids of the same generation- it fails miserably. Go into any 7-11 and look at the under aged kids trying to buy cigarettes.
10 posted on 02/13/2002 3:50:15 AM PST by Utopia
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To: marktwain
but the clear extortion racket of the tobacco settlement makes me ill.

I couldn't agree more. With all the tobacco nonsense, the one thing that kept going through my mind was: "who's next?" If we can demonize a legal product like this - what's to stop the same people from going after junk food, burgers, snacks, and the dreaded twinkie. After all, Twinkies have too much sugar, and Twinkies kill.

11 posted on 02/13/2002 3:53:52 AM PST by Utopia
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To: 2Trievers
Big Tobacco is paying the price of their folly back in the mid 1990's when they lied under oath about not knowing nicotine being addictive, only to have ALL those embarassing memos from the 60's and 70's pop up. I can't believe no one shredded those...

This is all about revenge, pure and simple. Before those memos showed up, NO ONE and I mean NO ONE was able to win a case against Big Tobacco. After the memos, it seems BT lost cases left and right. Jurors were all pissed off at having been lied to, pure and simple.

Not that I'm saying that this is right or anything...just that BT is paying for the folly of thinking they could lie under oath and get away with it. You takes yer chances, you pays yer dues when you get caught...

Is it time for me to point out the hypocricy in letting one cabal of companies market a dangerous product while still keeping pot illegal?
12 posted on 02/13/2002 3:58:18 AM PST by WyldKard
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To: Rain-maker
Maybe Big Tobacco will wise up and leave out all that added crap they put in the smokes?

The adds are intellectually dishonest. The chemicals "supposedly" put in tobacco mostly are naturally occuring chemicals. For instance Urea is a basic biological nitrogen waste product - cells are always making it and its in almost anything you eat. Because it's a waste product it is removed from the blood in the kidneys and then it gets urinated out. So yes, urea is in urine, and it's in tabacco, but it's also in anything biological. Like that steak? There's urea in that steak - just like your urine. Dishonest?

I guess intellectually dishonest is a "bad" thing when it is applied to legal drugs like nicotine, but when our government makes intellectually dishonest adds about illegal drugs and terrorism that's ok? Hypocritical at best!

13 posted on 02/13/2002 4:10:39 AM PST by realpatriot71
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To: WyldKard
Big tabacco paying the price give me a break - after the settlement the price of a pack went up $1.50 per pack and smokers still buy them up. This whole deal was just a way to put in a large regressive sales tax without calling it a tax. The states and the feds are now only more dependent on the smoke companies for tax revenues. People who think that this money is coming from the profits of the cig companies are naive. BTW you ever wonder why the liquer and beer companies have been immune from this same sort of government tax attack? I mean drunk drivers hitting a non-drunks car has a hell of a lot more effect on the public than second hand smoke. Big sugar better be ready to pass on the next tax.
14 posted on 02/13/2002 4:23:11 AM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: 2Trievers
These Truth ads are the stupidest thing i have ever seen on TV.
15 posted on 02/13/2002 4:28:19 AM PST by Phantom Lord
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To: 2Trievers
doghouse ? they're the best cig adds EVER !
16 posted on 02/13/2002 4:34:28 AM PST by ChadGore
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To: realpatriot71
Specifically, I was talking about the additives, and not what compounds are present in natural leaf tobacco.

The following 599 ingredients have been identified in tobacco industry documents as being added to tobacco in the manufacturing of cigarettes by the five major American cigarette manufacturing companies. 


17 posted on 02/13/2002 4:58:59 AM PST by Rain-maker
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To: marktwain
Agreed. They make me want to bomit. BTW, how are Tom & Huck doin'?
18 posted on 02/13/2002 5:27:48 AM PST by Mr Ducklips
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To: Phantom Lord
I used to visit their website and their forum. They had nothing but critism of their commercials. havent been there in a looong time. I imagine they took the forum down because of all the anti-truth (lies) comments.
19 posted on 02/13/2002 5:34:08 AM PST by smith288
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To: Rain-maker
Reagents are used in the making of any industrial product. If one believes that leaves are picked and then all the above chemicals are then dumped on top and mixed together, then placed into papers and attached to a filter is seriously delusional. Different chemicals are used during varrying steps in the processing of tobacco leaves, not a single cigarete contains a mixture of tobacco and the entire list of chemicals you gave.
20 posted on 02/13/2002 5:46:25 AM PST by realpatriot71
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