This past September 6, a local anti tobacco group organized a protest march in Dhaka to demand the enactment of a tobacco control law it says will save millions of lives from smoking-related diseases. March organizers charged that the deluding publicity of the tobacco companies had increased the health risks of millions of smokers in the Third World and predicted that if this publicity was left unchallenged, an epidemic of smoking-related diseases might break out in the country. No one can seriously challenge the assertion that multinational tobacco companies have targeted the Third World countries as markets for their products....