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Philip Morris telling its clients that its products kill looks like commercial suicide. So what are cigarette makers up to? When its Web site says, "Smokers and potential smokers should rely on these messages in making all smoking-related decisions," does a tobacco company actually mean smokers should quit? Certainly not; it would go out of business. It is only because Philip Morris knows that such pious statements have little impact that it publishes them. After all, the scientific evidence regarding the impact of smoking has been around for quite a while, at least since 1964, when the first Surgeon...
...fact is, today's smokers, especially heavy smokers, know that smoking is bad for them, but that knowledge doesn't usually stop them. They develop a sort of split personality when it comes to their bad habit: ask any addict around campus (and there are still quite a few out there, despite enormous social pressures to quit), and he or she will tell you that she pushes the health-hazard right to the back of her mind whenever she smokes...
...rummaging around in their pocket for coins at a Walgreen's counter to buy their third packet of cigarettes that day--packs they probably can't really afford. Ask them why they still smoke, and they'll answer with a raspy voice, "I'm too old to quit." The opposite story, that of young people who thoughtlessly take up smoking, is just as tragic and common. So when Philip Morris advertises that "cigarette smoking is addictive, as that term is most commonly used today. It can be very difficult to quit smoking, but this should not deter smokers who want...
...might, even today, feel a bit guilty about actively pleasing themselves. One Dunster House junior commented that she "went to a Catholic school [where] a priest came in to give lectures about masturbation--and what a sin it was to make love to yourself--I tried to quit but couldn't, so I would just lay in the dark feeling ashamed...
...group included a note in its letter to the targeted researchers, warning them that they have "until autumn of 2000 to quit [the] vivisection industry, or be subjected to violence which is uncomparable [sic] to booby trapped letters...