So Senior Vice President William Kloepfer Jr. of the Washington-based Tobacco Institute disagrees with Ellen Goodman`s column on tobacco industry actions.
That`s not surprising. The Tobacco Institute has been cranking out industrial smokescreens and pollution for years. The effort is simple: Keep the people buying but don`t tell them they`ll be dying.
When any organization must parrot 1979 quotes to support its arrogant and self-serving arguments, especially in the face of more than 350,000 yearly deaths triggered by its product (tobacco) support; when it uses every weasel- worded trick to attempt (dishonestly) to say its product support (and its product) is ”all right”; when it distorts, lies, rewrites reality, and does this with a straight face, the public is shown what a good ”con job” can do.
The nonsmoker loses health, happiness and the joy of cleanliness when one smoker is nearby; the Tobacco Institute and its associated companies lose nothing and gain much by assuring there will be smokers to buy-buy-buy and make nonsmokers suffer-suffer-suffer. But then, the specious reasoning of the industry makes any person capable of thinking suffer-suffer-suffer.
