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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (9329)	9/15/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

G'day Bill & all - well, maybe the Honourable Dr Mahathir Mohammad would attribute the jailing of FEER bureau chief, Mr Murray Hiebert, a plot [instigated by foreign agents, no doubt,] to make the democratic Malaysia to look bad <VBG>! feer.com best, Bosco

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (9329)	9/15/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

SCMP -- Japan Tobacco distrubutes free cigarettes to nursing homes scmp.com [South China Morning Post - Asia] Wednesday, September 15, 1999 Anger at cigarette handouts REUTERS in Tokyo Cigarette maker Japan Tobacco had anti-smoking activists gasping yesterday over its plan to give millions of cigarettes to nursing homes. "This is practically telling people to hurry up and die," said Bungaku Watanabe, head of the Tobacco Problems Information Centre. [...] Mr Hayashida said that while the number of cigarettes to be distributed this year was undecided, in 1998 it passed out around 15 million cigarettes to about 5,000 nursing homes. Published in the South China Morning Post. Copyright 1999. All rights reserved.