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echo: locsysop
to: Bob Lawrence
from: James Robertson
date: 1994-06-11 15:54:00
subject: CONTINENTAL SHELF

Answering a msg of , from Bob Lawrence to Geoff Armstrong:

>  GA> What's not sane about it? If selling tobacco products is not
>  GA> illegal, why should advertising be? If I were a cigarette
>  GA> company, I'd be taking legal action.
>
>   You can't take legal action against the law. They have already been
> to the High Court, and lost. Parliament represents the people, and
> Parliament writes the law with the people's support. Out Constitution
> doesn't say anything aobut the right of tobacco companies to kill people.

The problem is, Phillip Morris is about to launch yet another High Court
challenge.  Hopefully they will lose again, but in the meantime they waste
millions more in valuable time and money.

As someone who smokes I wish they would just make it Illegal, or at least a
prescription item.

Cheers,

James.


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