🚀 go-pugleaf

Reason <gregp@telusplanet.net> wrote in message
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> "Scott Willing" <NOTwilling2BSPAMMED@mts.net> wrote in message
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> > Doug Craigen <dcc@escape.ca> wrote in message
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> > > No objection to much of the list, but two items stand out:
> >
> > [snipped to one item for a personal rant]
> >
> > > "G. B." wrote:
> >
> > > > If you suck three packs of cigarette smoke into your lungs each day
> for
> > 40
> > > > years and die of lung cancer, the tobacco company is to blame.
> > >
> > > They're not to blame for people choosing to smoke, just for denying
the
> > > medical facts.
> >
> > Agree, but you haven't gone far enough. Nasty additives to keep the
smokes
> > burning in the ashtray, formulations intended to increase addictiveness,
> and
> > youth-targeted advertising come to mind. These people are heartless
> killers.
>
> You're over-reacting. Those "nasty additives" weren't put there to poison
> anyone, just to enhance the smoking experience.

How do you define 'enhancing the smoking experience'?

> I mean in all fairness,
> tiny amounts of ammonia and other chemicals aren't going to make
cigarettes
> much more lethal than they already are.

You're right. What's a bit more crap tossed in the mix? Especially if it
enhances the experience of killing oneself.

Interesting spin.

-smw