tobacco institute query

[Chris Burford]

At 14:10 30/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Greg Nowell wrote:
>
>>Burford raised a question about the Tobacco Institute.
>>Its closure was a specifically negotiated component of
>>the 44-state settlement.    It should be observed with
>>the4 degree of industry concentration in tobacco the
>>political effect is minimal.  -gn
>
>It means LBO loses an institutional subscription. Former Tobacco Institute
>PR guy Fred Panzer subscribed long ago, and chatted me up once on the phone
>when LBO was even more obscure than it is now. He also sub'd to Monthly
>Review and seemed to read it.
>
>Doug

I appreciate Doug's comment here. It would be consistent with capitalist
lobbying practices to have a very broad approach, including to
organisations that they might think potentially critical. It is interesting
how that approach has spread to the internet.

Chris Burford

London