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To: Sean Flater who wrote (14528)11/28/1997 1:39:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
>>>Until then I see no moral or ethical issues investing in tobacco companies.<<<

Unless your ethics can pass the test when money is involved, you havn't got any. Your turning a blind eye only makes your position less ethical, not more.

As to why the government hasn't outlawed it, that is because tobacco companies corrupt the government with large sums of money. Since they still resist government spending even to educate the public about the dangers, and they pay the politicians not to forbid the practice, they are as responsible as any columbian drug runner.

Perhaps even more so. There is no other drug as pernicious as tobacco. Nothing else that kills so many, 50% of its users. And the people in those third world countries selling the other drugs are often in desperate circumstances, unlike the stockholders of tobacco companies, who could simply invest in other things if they cared that people were dying for their profits.

Investors in those companies have responsibility. They are the owners and so they are the drug sellers. Whatever their lightweight's take on the morality of killing 6 million people a year worldwide may be. This is blood money.

I think a college course in ethics, or if you are religious, a conversation with your priest or rabbi or other religious leader might clear this up for you. To start with, they will tell you that what is ethical or moral is not entirely up to you to decide, based on your own selfish interests. There *are* some rules.

Chaz
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