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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (45586)	7/14/2000 3:43:54 PM
From: Shoot1st	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

and...made an effort to design the product to get the job (addiction) done effectively. Shootie

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (45586)	7/14/2000 4:08:09 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 63513

I do tend to think that the tobacco companies are slime. I just think that the contributory negligence has to be weighed a little bit more seriously. I am 37 years old, and I have always known that smoking was bad. Obviously, there was a time when that wasn't known, and those that were personally harmed then, should be awarded damages. Alcohol certainly has many of the same characteristics that smoking has (addictive, bad for your health), is this industry next? Certainly the health warnings didn't start showing up on the alcoholic beverage containers until very recently and historically, the advertising certainly has presented alcohol in a light that isn't altogether truthful. I should point out that I have never smoked a cigarette in my life.