The Truth?

[lurkerwithout]

I thought I was annoyed by The Truth's ad campaigns. Where they use biased imagery to push there Tobacco Companies Are The Evil manifesto. The ones that showed that food and cigarette manufactors had differing rules concerning listing ingrediants (Gee. Two seperate products controlled by two entirely seperate government agencies have to abide by different rules? How bizarre.) Or where they put a dog in a cage, poked it and then told people that if Big Tobbaccy weren't liars it would be safe to pet the dog. Poor dog. Or where they filmed people reacting to realistic body parts in trash cans. (I bet the local police LOVED that one.) But then I catch their most recent one...

Where they draw chalk outlines all over the place with little placards on them. Placards that say tobacco kills twenty times as many people as murder. Really? Twenty times. Twenty times the murder statistics of where? The US? The World? What are you counting as murder? If its self-defense is it murder? War? How about genocide? Does that not count as murder, since its a different word?

Rarely has a group that I basically agree with (that smoking is bad for you and the company that sells the addictive product are basically greedy and not very nice) made me want to beat them up, steal their wallets and use the money to buy a carton of Camels...

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[ntwrth-memberin.livejournal.com]

People Eating Tasty Animals? What do you have against them?

[ntwrth-memberin.livejournal.com]

By and large they do have the right message, but their methods (tactics?) leave something to be desired.

Me, I quit cuz of the kids and just got tired of it. Now and then I still miss it after I have a big meal or some beers...

[frustratedpilot]

Being as I live in a part of the world where tobacco is cultivated, I would not mind seeing somebody bioengineer a tobacco blight that kills off a crop or two, then drives up the consumer cost of cigarettes/chaw/cigars up to ridiculous heights. Tobacco kills because it's affordable.