On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 09:45 AM, Andy Driscoll wrote:
Human nature, history shows - especially the Western cultures - must witness
the physical atrocity of disease, war and negligence before taking action
that would alleviate the likelihood of recurrence. Then, we often go
overboard, passing laws to prevent the perpetration of the most obscure
crimes and reporting on those crimes as if they occupy 90% of society's
daily life.
So true.
There was an excellent public television program on last night about tobacco. It is a fascinating story. Smokers watching it should immediately cease using tobacco in the huge numbers the medical community did when the first surgeon general's findings came out on January 11, 1964. But that is unlikely.
We are here forty years later, still debating the public dangers of smoking. It isn't evidence that will change the public will, as it did for the doctors.
It is going to be pressure on the economic marketplaces. The cost is going to have to be so high that no business will want to take the risk. Pretty stupid, huh?
Best wishes,
Laura Wittstock Southeast
Laura Waterman Wittstock MIGIZI Communications, Inc. 3123 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 55406 612.721.6631 ext 219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.migizi.org http://laurawatermanwittstock.blogspot.com/
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