[lbo-talk] Payback time for big tobacco

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 14:26:32 PST 2005


On Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:40 AM [PDT], Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:


> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4532390.stm
>


>From BBC's Story:

The tar contained in the smoke of light cigarettes, for example, was actually more toxic than that of regular cigarettes, the plaintiffs said.

<...>

Anyone who smokes non filters will tell you that ripping the filter off a filter cigarette and smoking it is an ugly, nasty tasting, high carbon monoxide experience.

The Federal standard for what may be called organic is a classic example of taking something, albeit in this case a heathy thing, and changing the rules/nomenclature to suit the relevant industry.



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