tobacco

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 23 09:17:32 PST 1998


Chris Burford wrote:


>Doug seems still to be stuck in a moralism-antimoralism polarity here
>instead of analysing the class forces behind the phenomena.

Class forces behind smoking? I really don't think they're very important. I think a lot of liberals have hopped on the anti-tobacco bandwagon because it's a low-cost way of bashing capital. You can get the emotional thrill of denouncing greedy profiteers at no political risk.

Doug



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