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Article #38458Re: The Blameless Society -> Tobacco / Drugs
From: Reason
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 04:55
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 04:55
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And it doesn't take a rocket scientist either, to know that it can't be good for you to suck into your lungs, every day, the by-products of the combustion of a poisonous plant. Chris Delanoy wrote in message ... >Doug Craigen <dcc@escape.ca> wrote in message > news:3AABEA44.9E54AA46@escape.ca... > >> > 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. > >There have been documented warnings about the ill effects of smoking dating >back as far as 1604. The notion that people were somehow duped into >believing that they weren't unhealthy, regardless of what tobacco companies >were saying, is so beyond ludicrous that it even defies description. > >Chris Delanoy > >----- >"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual >rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." > - Ayn Rand > > >
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