On Mon, August 10, 1998 at 15:14:11 (-0700) Ellen Dannin writes: >... In addition, the US >has periodically used its trade policies to force other countries to import >certain quotas of US cigarettes in exchange for trade agreements. You are being too charitable. It wasn't "in exchange for trade agreements", it was in exchange for not being attacked economically with sanctions of various sorts. C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General, spoke out eloquently before Congress and elsewhere against this cowardly maneuver. Bill
