New Labour moves against tobacco profits

[Fellows, Jeffrey]

I've found spiking kids' Coke or Pepsi drinks with cigarette ashes is a good
deterrent, except for those who drink Dr. Pepper. The problem is that the
addictive nature of cigarette smoking makes it very difficult to quit once a
smoking pattern is established. So kids may smoke to be cool, piss of
adults, etc. , but adults are most likely to smoke because they smoked as
kids.

The earlier swill about the personal 'satisfaction' of smoking a cigarette
during 'special moments' in one's life, or some such implication, makes
about as much sense as having the freedom to enjoy a few good lines of coke,
or a speedball, in celebration of a BCS bowl game victory. Yes smokers are
free to enjoy their cigarettes, but are they free to enjoy a moment without
one?

Jeff

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Doug Henwood wrote:


> Nothing like an anti-smoking campaign to get kids to start smoking. Says
> the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
> <http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00055070.htm>:

Yeah, the ads should say, "kids, don't smoke.  smoking is for adults."

 That'll
cut teenage smoking right away.

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
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fax 530-898-5901