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RE: In related news...
By FITCamaro on 6/4/2012 2:18:51 PM , Rating: 2
I for one have gotten completely tired of anti-smoking ads. Anyone who does not know how bad cigarettes are for you does not have a functioning brain. This continued campaign, paid for by cigarette companies themselves by government mandate, is absurd.

How in the hell it is legal that an industry should pay to kill itself off is beyond me. Just another example of judicial activism in my view. We have the message and we know its bad for us. People obviously still choose to smoke. The continued ads are just ridiculous and annoying.

PS - I have never smoked a single cigarette in my life because I find the smell to be disgusting.

RE: In related news...
By 1prophet on 6/4/2012 9:33:11 PM , Rating: 2
They're not paying to kill themselves since the ads are not effective, one movie star, singer, bad boy with a cigarette (at the must go to party) in their mouth can cancel the effects of 10,000 ads.

The tobacco industry settlement was a farce just like the no smoking campaign, they purposely ensured that during the settlements by not allowing effective ads against them paid by the settlement money.

And governments make so much money off cigarette sales they definitely won't kill them off, just another two faced farce the sheeple have fallen for.

