At 04:54 PM 5/23/97 -0400, Amos Danube wrote:
>Friends,
>
>   I guess it is time to add some to all this "simplistic approach to
>one's health".
><snip snip>
>> Smoking has become a class issue in North America.  Today, most smokers are
>> less educated and make less money than those who don't.  In Hungary this
>> isn't the case, ... yet.
>
>   Now you are in your element,Joe. This is nothing but pure Marxist
>malarkey. It was reported in today's paper that there is a big increase in
>teenager's smoking cigars. What "class issue"?

<etc etc>

>> Who's being impractical, Eva?
>
>   This remark is not even worth bothering with.
>   Sorry folks, I got going here. So I'll let you go,
>                                                      Amos

Hi!

I couldn't help chuckling to myself, remembering that Istvan Lippai said
that Amos was a Commie. If he is, he is really good at disguising himself
as a running dog of capitalism, eh, Joe?

Viszlat,

Johanne/Janka

Here I am again,

   Eric LeGresley may be both right and wrong. Depending on, of course,
where you are coming from. But...

Bob Hosh wrote:
>
> The following is quoted from an article, "Tobacco Abroad: infiltrating foreig
n
> markets", which appeared in Volume 105, Number 2, Environmental health
> Perspectives, February, 1997.
>
> ..."Although China is the number one cigarette-concuming country, Poland
 claims
> the highest per capita use at 3,620 cigarettes per year; an increase from
 3,010
> in the early 1970s...High smoking rates in Poland and throughout Eastern
 Europe
> are a legacy of the communist system, according to Eric LeGresley, legal
> counsel for the Nonsmokers' Rights Association in Ottawa, Ontario, who aserts
> that such governments 'pacifie[d] the population by providing cheap
> cigarettes.'"

   The name of the association should give you a hint. But I am
wondering
whether Canada has something in the air or the water that makes people
to
try to simplify complicated questions. My first, and obvious,question
is:
did he compare his "findings" with  smoking trends in those countries
be-
fore the commies took over?  Not likely, this would very likely cause
him
problems in generalization.  On the other hand,  all totalitarian
regimes
provide a lot of  cheap "bread and circus". I haven't heard  anybody
com-
plaining about the fact that  bread and  milk was dirt  cheap in
Hungary
under the bad guys. As a matter of fact,people in Hungary came to
believe
that it is their 'god given right'.

> "By 1993, 23% of all international cigarettes sold were in Eastern Europe,
 more
> than in Asia, the Middle East, or Africa."

   Now, here is a statement that would warm Joe's heart.  When will
folks
realize that the 'duty' of businesses  is to sell a certain product.
And
as long as there is a  demand for something,  there will be a business
to
sell it. The right way to put out a business,any business,out of
business
is not to buy it's products.
   This guy blames the commies, Joe blames the capitalists.  What a
cheap
way out!
           Amos