Guest guest Posted June 2, 2004 Report Share Posted June 2, 2004 NUTS! NUTS! NUTS! What could be NUTTIER? I am sure most of us have seen them---in gas station " convenience " stores, for instance. They have been around for years already. But every time I see one, I am dumbstruck that there is a company and a product that are so twisted and deadly that they are actually putting out literature that is supposed to help parents keep their children from using the product! The one I saw and picked up this weekend was titled, " Raising Kids Who Don't Smoke---Talk To Your Kids About Not Smoking---They'll Listen " . Leafing through the pamphlet gives me a very strange feeling---I would call it creepy and disgusting. Here is real, honest-to- goodness, black is white/white is black, up is down/down is up, Nazi- influenced, straight, unadulterated double-talk. From the back of the pamphlet, in small letters: " This brochure was created for parents on bahalf of Philip Morris USA Youth Smoking Prevention by Meredith Integrated Marketing in conjunction with an expert advisory board. As the manufacturer of a product intended for adults who smoke that has serious health effects, Philip Morris USA is committed to helping prevent kids from smoking cigarettes. We have a dedicated Youth Smoking Prevention department that supports positive youth development programs, produces advertising for parents and conducts ongoing research to help prevent youth smoking. " Can you imagine working for that " Youth Smoking Prevention " department? That is, working for a company whose product debilitates and destroys those who use it, in a department designed to keep people from using it(but not really.) Also, I wonder how active Philip Morris's " dedicated Youth Smoking Prevention department " is in Third World countries? Not very, I dare say... I read the other day that in Great Britain, when they discovered that giving children aspirin could result in Reye's Syndrome(sp?), they completely removed children's aspirin from the market place. Do you suppose they should have just left children's aspirin on the shelves, and instead had the companies that manufactured children's aspirin put out pamphlets suggesting ways for parents to keep children from taking the product? Elliot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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