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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (87018)	12/15/2000 9:53:25 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have met Peter. Nice fellow.....Since I stopped smoking, I have had a much harder time staying alert during long drives. It has sometimes been outright dangerous.....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (87018)	12/15/2000 12:08:48 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hey Charlie.... >>Why Smoking Is Good For You>> Thanks for smoking!! Bottom line: all we have to do is redefine smoking. Old, Basic Definition: A Personal Pleasure Old Liberal Definition: A Destructive Personal Behavior Which Places Others At Risk..... New Wave 21st Century Definition: Personal Freedom. The more personal freedom individuals experience and share with each other the more creative ideas and good energy can flow between and among individuals. I hereby proclaim that the attempt by these regulators to robb mankind of his right to smoke has materially and massively lowered the number of positive personal interactions between and among INDIVIDUALS who used that time to communicate, connect, collaborate and cooperate with one another. As a former tabocco-chewing ranch worker from Montana myself during my early days, I can legitimately argue that my chewing time made for some of the best interactive time among other cowboys and individuals stretching into my young adulthood. There's no greater feeling of freedom that to chew Copenhagen inside Northwestern University's library. Good God Almighty how the creative juices would flow into those hundreds of papers I had to write for this or that class - and them were the days when none of us had the luxury of computers and word processors. If I didn't have my can of Cope I'd have been resigned to writers block HELL!!! My late father was one of THE most positive and creative individuals who walked the face of this planet and he REALLY ENJOYED SMOKING and he like to drink!!! But my how this man could create, visualize and write up ideas which he used to bring value into the world. Like starting the garlic revolution in the early 80's when he had the vision that garlic would become a mass market. So he found a supplier and CREATED his own product - Pure-Gar - certified and resold it to the Shaklees, Amways an dother multilevel distrubuting companies in addition to having his own retail brand, Quintessence. The catalyst die was cast and the rest was history. There was only ONE competitor from Japan which had an 90% lock on the world market when my Dad started. At the end an entire new industry was created - all from this simple viral process of risking sharing, caring and blessing others with the great facts behind what good things garlic can do for you. My wife and I take garlic everyday to this day!! My dad and mom sold off Pure-Gar to Basic American Foods in 1994 at the end of a nice 10+ year run. SO THERE!!! My father's smoking DID create value and helped millions of individuals all over the world for it he DIDN'T smoke he would NOT have come up with the creative juices and energy needed to write down and share these personal dreams and visions with others. SMOKING IS GOOD!!!! Why? Because FREEDOM IS GOOD!!! How's them smackers?? To all the David Bois and trial lawyers out there...... I remain convinced and committed that this IS the truth!!! Funny how the ranch I worked on in the Shields River Valley in Montana - just 1 mile south of Clyde Park along route 89 - is just 6-8 miles southeast of the Double U Ranch which is now called the Crazy Mountain Ranch which is owned by the Phillip Morris Company and is actually the home of the Marboro Man. Perhaps I need to pick up the phone and chat with them there folks at Phillip Morris so we can begin to turn this madness around. Thanks alot Charlie. You've just planted a seed - a catalyst - which can begin completely and totally and massively UNRAVELLING all this legal MADNESS which the lawyers - Priests of Black Holes - have wrought on this great country of ours. You da man Charlie!! And each day here in Evanston IL I still wear that cowboy hat I got in Jackson Hole during the Millenium celebrations. Time to call the Marboro Man and have a chat in the name of FREEDOM!!! Peace. GO!!