[metesky]

I got a call last week from Phillip Morriss doing an online poll and had the extreme pleasure of personally telling one of their representatives pretty much what you just said, only without the online restraint.

Made me feel very good.

[Judith Anne]

Way to go, Metesky!

This article just highlights one small part of the complete idiocy surrounding the entire smoking controversy. I'm still angry that an entire industry that served American smokers for many years was targetted and caved. That industry also helped growers, harvesters, producers, sellers, and generated untold millions in jobs, tax revenues--and here I go again with another run-on sentence.

I've heard it said that 1/6th of smokers die of smoke-related illness. Assuming that's true, and I doubt it, that means 5/6ths die of something else. And I think the 1/6th figure is exaggerated. Don't even get me started on second-hand smoke, which causes exactly NO disease or death.

I despise the tobacco companies for not putting up a better defense, I despise the propagandists who want everyone to think that a molecule of cigarette smoke is assault with a deadly weapon, I despise the nanny governments who want to tell everyone how to live and what to do and where to do it.
I depise the lawyers whose greed is unbounded, as they put on a cloak of hypocrisy and claim that their concern is the health of the average American when all they have EVER wanted is the huge egregiously obscene legal fees they thought they were guaranteed from the backs of average American smokers.

In fact, bleep them all. Bleep the whole frikken bunch.

[Gabz]

I'm so proud of you!!!!!!

[SheLion]

I got a call last week from Phillip Morriss doing an online poll and had the extreme pleasure of personally telling one of their representatives pretty much what you just said, only without the online restraint.

This is ANOTHER thing that makes me SCREAM! Has anyone had the displeasure of seeing Phillip Morris's ad on TV about how bad smoking is? And how smokers can go to their web site to find out how to stop SMOKING?

Then WHY IS PHILLIP MORRIS STILL SELLING CIGARETTES IF THEY THINK IT'S SO DAMN BAD FOR US. They are beyond belief and the lowest of the low. I hate Phillip Morris. They are a bunch of two-faced SOB'S!