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Jump to full article: San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (SF IMC), 2002-12-03
Author: Watchdog
Intro: European Union, copying the US etc, plans to ban what it calls "tobacco ads"...but the ban is as fraudulent as the ads it targets. In fact, the ban benefits the broad cigarette cartel...and Big Oil. . .
By banning ads and smoking, officials are protecting big oil and pharmaceuticals, the makers of so many tobacco pesticides. They are protecting the chlorine industries. They are protecting the cigarette manufacturers from charges that go far beyond just selling natural plant products. . .
Perhaps the biggest giveaway that this is a massive fraud, to cover up what some might describe as mass-murder, is that even though over 100 countries have signed the POPs Treaty, in Stockholm, to globally phase out dioxins and 11 other of the worst Persistent Organic Pollutants, dioxin is STILL permitted in smoke from chlorine-contaminated cigarettes!! . .
It is also helpful to note that many of the diseases said to be "smoking-related" (smoking of WHAT?) are known already to be symptoms of dioxin exposures...yet tobacco itself hasn't been yet studied for such things. It is just a bit premature, then, to indict tobacco for anything. It is far past time, however, to ban dioxins in cigarette smoke, and to get to the business of compensating victims...and indicting the perpetrators.
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