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Day 423

Written by GareK
Thursday, 01 March 2007
I caught wind of Camel's new strategy to kill more women and I tell you truthfully, it stinks to high heaven. The New York Times editorial entitled Don't Fall for Hot Pink Camels states that... *"this new attempt to woo women smokers can only be viewed as another cynical blow to public health."* I couldn't agree more. When is it going to happen that somebody makes the Big Tobacco industry take responsibility for killing people intentionally? If you read my posts as a guest blogger on CiggyFree's blog site, you're aware that I'm very much taking responsibility for the fact that my children grew up to be smokers... and that I'm doing something to at least try to reverse the damage that I did without intending to... But Big Tobacco knows exactly what they are doing, and what the consequences of their actions will be - and yet they continue to take these actions anyway. How can these people sleep at night? More to the point, with the testimony of people like Jeffrey Wigand, who has first-hand knowledge of the intent of the highest level executives in Big Tobacco companies, how can our laws continue to protect these dealers of death? Yes, I take full responsibility for the fact that I ever put a stupid, stinking, nasty, death-dripping sickarette in my mouth in the first place. I did that, and I accept the fact that it was my choice to have done so. Now let BT take responsibility for making people believe that their products were desireable, safe and non-addictive. And let them stand before just men and women everywhere who have lost loved ones to lung cancer and heart disease brought on by smoking. Let them explain to these people whose lives have been devastated, why it's okay to make sickarettes more addictive. Let them explain how it isn't their fault, just because they spent billions of dollers finding new ways to make their products' nicotine levels increase upon combustion, make the toxins cross the blood/brain barrier more quickly and make the addictive processes hit the pleasure centers harder... let them tell us why this is okay. Perhaps they can spell out for us exactly how they aren't responsible for the 4,000 plus chemicals in a sickarette, chemicals which their ex-employees will tell you were introduced to their products for the express purpose of "keeping their customers for a lifetime". Come on, BT -- explain to a little 9 year old girl why she can't have her mommy anymore. Explain to these kids who once were athletes why their toes are being eaten away by a disease your tobacco products caused... and make sure you include all the ways that these consequences, which you so secretly arranged, are not really your fault. As much as I hate to say it - I do hope the FDA gets jurisdiction over tobacco products. The FDA doesn't have much to do with the receipt of lobby monies, so maybe Big Tobacco's expenditures over the past several decades in lobby money won't help them anymore. God speed, and it's about damn time. Click Here for Full Story: Discuss this article on the forums. (0 posts)
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