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Non-Tech : Philip Morris - A Stock For Wealth Or Poverty (MO)
MO 58.05-0.6%Dec 19 3:59 PM EST
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To: Theo Karantsalis who wrote (6129)5/3/2001 12:30:07 PM
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'U.N. Bureaucrats Snatching Cigarettes Out of Our Mouths'

(CNSNews.com) - The Libertarian Party is warning Americans that United Nations bureaucrats are drafting an international treaty "to try to get everyone on Earth to stop smoking." It's World War against cigarettes, the group said in a press release. The Party's National Director Steve Dasbach said, "It was bad enough when American politicians were trying to tax your cigarettes and regulate or prohibit your right to smoke. Now politicians from France, Zimbabwe, and Brazil want the power to try to prevent adult Americans from smoking." According to the Libertarians, representatives from 190 governments are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, this week to negotiate a multi-national treaty called the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It's expected to call for big increases in cigarettes prices, which would be the same everywhere in the world; severe restrictions on cigarette advertising; and maybe multi-billion dollar lawsuits to hold tobacco companies "responsible" for tobacco-related health problems. The World Health Organization wants the treaty ratified by U.N. member nations by 2003. "Smoking is a personal choice, not an international crisis," said Dasbach.
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