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"Tobacco industry "unpunished,unrepentant criminals"
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<blockquote data-quote="alfredo_buscatti" data-source="post: 291165" data-attributes="member: 36"><p>I'd been thinking of antis as unorganized, passionate citizens pushing their agenda. They exist, I would suppose, but in this article we see that there are organized, educated and financed anti-tobacco strategists who methodically battle to end tobacco. They: make its use a steep cost; take the tax money generated and use it to fight their battle. Squeeze the user and take the massive drippings to squeeze harder. This reminds me a lot of what happened with cigarettes in the US. The only difference was that they also squeezed big tobacco and used the damages along with stiff taxes to cast tobacco in a negative light. </p><p></p><p>I work with the working poor and most smoke. But take a job in the professions and you only hear derogatory views of tobacco. Look at the younger generation. They are believers in non-use of tobacco. All the advertising and the push by elementary and secondary schools about the deadly outcomes of smoking worked. I'd say that smoking has been reduced in those populations by some 70%.</p><p></p><p>I know this is not a popular view on a pipe forum, but I do believe statistics and health studies finally prevailed after studying the maladies and causes of death for smokers from the last two or three generations, everywhere. </p><p></p><p>The Europeans and third-world populations still love their tobacco. Governance, regulation and advertising don't seem to have dented their tobacco use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alfredo_buscatti, post: 291165, member: 36"] I'd been thinking of antis as unorganized, passionate citizens pushing their agenda. They exist, I would suppose, but in this article we see that there are organized, educated and financed anti-tobacco strategists who methodically battle to end tobacco. They: make its use a steep cost; take the tax money generated and use it to fight their battle. Squeeze the user and take the massive drippings to squeeze harder. This reminds me a lot of what happened with cigarettes in the US. The only difference was that they also squeezed big tobacco and used the damages along with stiff taxes to cast tobacco in a negative light. I work with the working poor and most smoke. But take a job in the professions and you only hear derogatory views of tobacco. Look at the younger generation. They are believers in non-use of tobacco. All the advertising and the push by elementary and secondary schools about the deadly outcomes of smoking worked. I'd say that smoking has been reduced in those populations by some 70%. I know this is not a popular view on a pipe forum, but I do believe statistics and health studies finally prevailed after studying the maladies and causes of death for smokers from the last two or three generations, everywhere. The Europeans and third-world populations still love their tobacco. Governance, regulation and advertising don't seem to have dented their tobacco use. [/QUOTE]
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