William S. Lear wrote: >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. Today's Financial Times has an article on how Eastern European are taking up American smokes. Of course the marketing prowess of U.S. tobacco has a lot to do with this, not to mention the "mystique" of America. But, why'd so many Eastern Europeans smoke in the days when there was no advertising? Doug
