Re: Proposal: A Soultion to Cigarette Butts

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From: Richard Treitel
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00

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>>That way the butts are bio-degradable and we can kill off a greater
>>percentage of the smoking population, eventually collapsing the
>>entire tobacco industry.  All hail Darwin.

> But that only works if you kill them off before they reproduce.

Since the tobacco industry has added so many other things to
cigarettes, *surely* it could be arranged that they would also contain
a strong "reverse-aphrodisiac".

[newsgroup list trimmed back by about a factor of 2, so that it now
 includes only about five times as many groups as is reasonable]

-- Richard

(If my employer shares these views, it hasn't told me.)

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From: treitel@bones.intellicorp.com (Richard Treitel)
Subject: Re: Proposal: A Soultion to Cigarette Butts
Date: 1996/10/28
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