Meeting the 'Smoking Baby': 'Vanguard' Dispatches from the Field
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"Sex, Lies & Cigarettes" premieres Tuesday, June 28 at 9/8c.
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WageSlave
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OK, I see the usual threadbare arguments from people who are either hacks for the tobacco lobby or simply free-market reactionaries. Allow me to address them:
Argument #1: What about fat people and cheeseburgers? They're bad, too.
Answer: There is no secondhand cheeseburger breath that will make me fat. In addition, a cheeseburger, regardless of its caloric count, provides nutrition. A cigarette, meanwhile, does not. I would be overjoyed if the poor kids in the Third World were eating cheeseburgers and getting fat as opposed to smoking. Heavy lifelong smokers are more of a burden on public health than fat people.
#2: What about alcohol? Studies show that a large percentage of drinkers are casual drinkers, who drink simply for the taste and don't drink daily. Ninety percent of cigarette smokers, meanwhile, are addicted and must smoke daily. Again, in addition, there is no second-hand wine buzz.
#3: The free market should be able to do what it wants. Really? You would support selling cigarettes to children and targeting them? If you make this argument you're just plain evil.
#4: It's the parents' responsibility. True. But the beauty for cigarette companies when it comes to advertising and giving out samples in Third World shantytowns is the parents are nowhere to be found. They can use poverty and social dysfunction to their advantage. Again, what about the children?
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