Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Non-Tech : Philip Morris - A Stock For Wealth Or Poverty (MO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Geoff who wrote (1345)	4/9/1998 9:31:00 AM
From: Ralph Bergmann	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6439

Geoff, I agree with your letter. It indicates that the whole discussion is not about youth protection, but about money. This morning I heard in the news a short piece of a congressmen's speech , who was talking about tabacco industry as criminals. No question the manipuation of the nicotine level in cigarettes was in my eyes a criminal act, but the whole discussion for me as an European viewer appears more like the battle Russia-USA in the cold war. Somehow it appears, please don't take it by heart, that the American society always needs an enemy to defeat and is focusing all the agressions into one specific direction. After Russia fails to play this part and also Sadam Hussein already is defeated, the tabacco industry plays now this part. I don't know what the public attitude is in this respect, but I think it also considers the tabacco industry as an enemy. The whole thing seems to be a solely political issue and therefore I have the hope that if the lawsuits will take several years the political aspect will lose its dominance and a settlement will be more likely. Regards Ralph

To: Geoff who wrote (1345)	4/9/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6439

Personally, I find this argument to "protect our children" is way over done. It appears to me that Clinton uses this argument as a ploy to raise taxes. He wants to increase Social Security taxes for our children, protect the enviroment by raising taxes for our children, place extreme taxes upon tobacco and other industries for our children. If Clinton really cared about our children, he would keep his zipper up and represent America with integrity, rather than force us to live in shame having to explain to our children why our president is a pervert. In my opinion he is an embarrasment to our nation. But who would argue against helping children? Clinton is using our children to rape our nation. I for one am tired of it. I feel the only way to protect our children is to protect them against the tyranny of government. The American people are being beaten down by taxes at every front, losing freedoms at every turn, all in the name of protecting children. Even the Conrgess, both republicans and democrats have become greedy and jumped upon this bandwagon of lies. I think its time for good Americans to stand up and fight, to protect our children from the true enemy. My family has been Kentucky tobacco farmers for generations, my Daddy was the first in his family to go to college, after which he left the farm. I have fond feelings for the tobacco business, I believe it is an honorable and legal business. I for one am willing to fight to the end to keep it safe from this government and lawyers who are trying to leech out its life blood. MO is very risky at this point. But as it said, "No risk, No reward." I am proud of RJR's stance. GO MO. HOPKINS