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...building and causing $500,000 worth of damage. Arab Americans quickly pointed to a disturbing coincidence: two floors above, the offices of the American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee were also badly damaged, the latest in a series of violent actions affecting the organization. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating the blaze. Commented one bureau spokesman: "Given the other attacks against the ADC and related Arab Americans, we are very concerned that it might have been directed against them...
...Georgetown (pop. 11,000), a center of Burley tobacco farming and Thoroughbred horse breeding, Toyota has found a site close to auto-parts suppliers, a crucial consideration for Japanese firms striving to keep a low level of inventories. In addition, the town's central U.S. location will allow Toyota to keep down delivery costs. Finally, the area offers inexpensive and plentiful electricity and easy access to two interstate highways...
What Mr. Oran fails to recognize, is that the tobacco companies were not bound to withholding information from the public, like he believes; instead, they had a definited choice. The notion of make as much money as possible or bottom-up financially doesn't apply, when one considers the alternatives open to the tobacco industry...
What is remarkable, is that tobacco companies have remained callous to the needs of the public. While cigarettes that are lower in nicotine content and filters were developed they didn't substantially reduce the risk to a similar extent that the soft drinks were reduced. A simple filter could be casually compared to light beer a way of diluting the strength of the product, but not to the point of reducing health risks. If the tobacco companies were actually acting on good faith, they would long ago have developed a better product...
...tobacco industry not find a necessity to reform their product? A distinet possibility is the nature of their product, that of creating addiction. The customers were addicted to the product and had no choice to change their habits. The consumer did not have the free will he had during the cola wars. Sure, soft drinks are addictive (through not nearly as addictive as cigarettes), but the soft drinks industry responded to this concern and came out with products which lacked caffeine. Regarding soft drinks, the consumer now has a choice for his consumption; regarding cigarettes, the consumer has no choice...