So tell me what you are talking about. I don't care whether you smoke or not, I do care when someone assaults the largest employer in my home town and wants to put more people out of work.
PM's press releases:
The company said the sites had also broken various statutes about cigarette taxation and importation.
could therefore harm efforts by public health groups
Philip Morris, the nation’s largest cigarette manufacturer and historically a leading opponent of tobacco regulation, has broken with the rest of the industry and is embracing the government intervention it has spent decades fighting.
And the Public Health Groups they are talking about are the Nico-Nazi's that are banning smoking in every privately owned business across the US.
I can see both sides of the issue, being both a smoker and living in a city where PM is a very large employer.
PM has a track record of treating it's customers (smokers) and the retailers of its products abysmmally.
OTOH, they are a reasonably good employer and do make major contributions to the communities in which they conduct business. and contrary to all the anit-smoker hysteria in the media, the stock pundits all continue to say tobacco stocks are still a good place to invest.
So this is a situation where both the PM rooters and booers are correct, based upon where they are coming from.
Personally I refuse to purchase their tobacco products, which means less $$ for the state through the Master Settlement Agreement, but I do buy many of their food products, which means helping my local economy by keeping many of my friends employed or their pensions sound.
sounds like I'm being a good citizen all the way around :-)