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Sunday, August 11, 2002 |
I'm your pusher man
Exactly one death in my family in the last fifty years has not been smoking related: an aunt who died in an automobile accident. Everyone else, grandparents, aunts, uncles: all of them died of something that you could trace back to smoking. The English language lacks words powerful enough to describe the evil of the tobacco industry.
[from the San Francisco Chronicle] A New Script on SmokingUCSF Professor of Medicine Stanton Glantz, an outspoken opponent of the tobacco industry who has called for an "R" rating for any film that depicts smoking, said, "It would be nice if the power structure in Hollywood felt the same way he did. Right now, movies are still the leading pro-tobacco influence in the world today as far as kids are concerned."
