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.

  In this free land of yours, where companies are free to advertise
any `legal' product, what is your stand on Shell advertising unleaded
for petrol-sniffing, aimed at 11-year-olds with special packs
including the plastic bag and instructions? Petrol isn't illegal, last
I heard.

  How about Roche advertising Vallium or Prozac aimed at teenagers
with personality problems (the entire teenager population) - complete
with published scientific denials that Vallium is not addictive and is
good for you, and makes your dick grow? Vallium and Prozac aren't
illegal.

  Or Dulux advertising spray cans of paint, complete with an ad
campaign of kids laughing and getting roots every time they spray
Geoff's car with meaningless scrawls? Paint isn't illegal.

  Or how about Andrew's Dignified Funerals drumming up business with a
"Suicide is good for you" campaign, with big-titted ladies yearning
adoringly as handsome men in tight trousers jump off high places?
Funerals are legal, aren't they?

  Or Ford promoting head-on srashes as the latest `in' thing when
sales drop off?

  Gee! I like the sound of this free-speech, Geoff. It beats the shit
out of anarchy. I'll take legal action myself. The bloody government
is breaking hundreds of laws, denying all this free speech! The `truth 
in advertising' laws can't be legal either, if it removes the freedom
to tell lies. Bloody discriminatory, I reckon. And what about the 
freedom to discriminate? 

Regards,
Bob

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