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lagatta
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posted 05 March 2003 06:09 PM

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/064/oped/US_abstains_in_the_war_on_tobaccoP.shtml

US abstains in the war on tobacco Boston Globe

By Derrick Z. Jackson, 3/5/2003

THE UNITED NATIONS has voted to go war against the world's worst weapon of mass destruction. The United States is against the resolution.

This news passed by with little notice last week. In Geneva, about 170 nations met in an effort to agree on a global treaty on tobacco. Cigarettes, according to the World Health Organization, kill 4 million people a year and will kill 10 million a year by 2030 if current trends continue. Unless there is a war on tobacco, cigarettes will cut short the lives of 500 million of the 6 billion people on earth.

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ben_al
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posted 05 March 2003 07:38 PM

I'm glad that somebody is standing up for the rights of innocent, smokers, who would never, ever force anyone else to inhale the fumes of their habit

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kuba walda
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posted 05 March 2003 07:54 PM

And everyone Again ...... The US supports big business, even if that business is the business of peddling death....

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Eauz
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posted 05 March 2003 09:10 PM

Well, at least China and Germany agree on one thing with the USA...

...! Germany... ! Why?

[ 05 March 2003: Message edited by: Eauz ]

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clockwork
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posted 05 March 2003 10:49 PM

quote:
I'm glad that somebody is standing up for the rights of innocent, smokers, who would never, ever force anyone else to inhale the fumes of their habit.

Aye puff in your gehn-ral directshion! Your moddiere was a non-smokere and your faddiere smelt of Marlboroughs!

Edited.. er.. sorry, in case anyone takes this the wrong way... I'm being an offensive smoker oow talks in dis outray-geeous akk-sent!

Thppppt!

[ 05 March 2003: Message edited by: clockwork ]

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Willowdale Wizard
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posted 06 March 2003 11:16 AM

the US: unilateralism masked as multilateralism (Iraq and the UN Security Council), unilateralism for everything else.

Mother Jones has a good article on this.

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Scott Piatkowski
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posted 06 March 2003 11:29 PM

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Germany... ! Why?

My understanding is that Germans link anti-smoking initiatives to Hitler (a link that the tobacco merchants are only too eager to exploit).

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