Joanna
info at pulpculture.org wrote:
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> I finally blogged on this because, as I suspected, this article just
> happened to have been produced 5 days after an article about Pfizer's
> and Bayer's recent release of a new PR campaign designed increase
> market share, including changing their image, in part to get the
> attention of younger men. The companies have seen, uh, flagging sales
> so they are in a dead horse... I mean ... heat and looking for more
> market share.
>
> And Carl, I think there's a fairly high rate of smoking among college
> students. Probably not nearly as much as in the 60s, but I'll bet it's
> close to the 30% overall rate in the US (those were the numbers last I
> read which was back in the late 90s). Also, the use of chewing tobacco
> seems to be growing from my observation. I was kind of shocked to
> learn this from my son who said that a lot of the girls he know use
> chew. They want the buzz without the smoke. Also, there's the
> increased use of cigars and blunts.
>
> Wasn't there something on the backlash, which started with grunge in
> the early 90s? (I looked it up and there was a 28% increase in smoking
> among college students between 1993 and 1997)
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10927777
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> (I find it hard to believe that kids have damaged themselves that much
> that they have ED. And, at any rate, I doubt there's an epidemic and
> that there is, rather, a manufactured interest in the issue spurred by
> the PR spin machines of the pharmaceutical companies.
>
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