Smoke screen/Phillip Morris Wants The FDA to regulate cigarettes

MSNBC Home ^ | 25 July 2002 | Samuel Loewenberg

[Madame Dufarge]

What's wrong with buying your smokes from the Drug Store?

With all due respect, I don't want to have to go to the "special place" to buy my butts.

One legitimate answer would be to get FDA approval and get into the arena of subidised drugs

I don't want to be a government subsidizee, because the Nazis want to pathologize a pasttime that millions find pleasurable.

I love the Mark Twain quote!

[SheLion]

Think about it: PM is not a person, doesn't "feel" or "think" like a person--it's ONLY purpose in being is to make money. That's what businesses do in a capitalistic society, and that's fine. I guarantee they (PM) know more about how to make use of the government for their own purposes than we do.

[I'm_With_Orwell]

Max, you're right, it's not 400 years old. It started in the 1850's (doh!). 6,000 years? Wow! I didn't know that!

Madame, I would prefer not to have to go to a special place to buy my smokes, either, but if it meant that they stopped taxing the hell out of them, well it'd be a small price to pay. It'd only be temporary anyway - until the nutters lost interest in smokers and went after...oh, I don't know....McDonalds ;)

SheLion, hit the nail on the head!