subject:"Sale of cigarettes"

Re: Sale of cigarettes

2006-10-17 Thread firestorm

:"The Marlboro man rides tall in the middle east. It was a status symbol
pull out a Marlboro or a Camel, Kent, Pall mall, or a Lucky Strike.
Buy the local brand during the week and make a statement with a
foreign brand on the weekend."
 i'm always deeply grateful when i hear such things, and proud to be part of 
such a profession.
   in the meantime, 6100 tonnnes of opium in this year's afghan crop.
   
   let's see, 6 billion people of opium using age...ruffly. so a tonne per 
million people, 2 pounds per thousand people, 1 ounce per 32 people??? i'm not 
good at math, but it seems like that's a little better than a gram per human 
being able to hold a pipe...unless those are metric tonnes, in which it's a bit 
uh...higher...:-)
   any reports on soul killing by phillip morris?
 a couple of grams is no biggie. nothing to get hung about. strawberry fields 
forever.
   


 
 
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The Marlboro man rides tall in the middle east. It was a status symbol
pull out a Marlboro or a Camel, Kent, Pall mall, or a Lucky Strike.
Buy the local brand during the week and make a statement with a
foreign brand on the weekend.

Brent Poirier Attorney at Law wrote:
The US balance of trade is at the highest unfavorable level in history.
So the US government agencies assist the largest exporters to sell their
products overseas, because it has a crucial beneficial economic impact
on the US balance of trade. Among the corporations that have the most
substantial favorable impact on the balance of trade, are the cigarette
companies. They export vast sums of cigarettes around the world. Far
from outlawing their sale, the US Dept of Commerce encourages and
facilitates their sale through trade conferences and export promotion
services.

I'm sure you're not surprise, are you Brent? Read Citadel of Faith and
find the Guardians graphic description of the moral downfall of
civilization. In our materialistic world there is only one golden calf
and it's *money*.

So we have the spectacle (because of lawsuits) of US cigarette
manufacturers running ads on American television directly discouraging
smoking among young people. So this assuages the consciences of the
American people, and cuts down on the lawsuits in American courts. Yet
these same cigarette companies have huge foreign advertising campaigns
designed to get many millions of young people around the world addicted
to cigarette smoking, particularly in developing countries where they
are the most vulnerable to the sophisticated advertising. It is a moral
crime of huge magnitude.

This is my understanding and my personal opinion.

Brent

"O ye loved ones of God! Know ye that the world is even as a mirage
rising over the sands, that the thirsty mistaketh for water. The wine
of this world is but a vapour in the desert, its pity and compassion
but toil and trouble, the repose it proffereth only weariness and
sorrow. Abandon it to those who belong to it, and turn your faces unto
the Kingdom of your Lord the All-Merciful, that His grace and bounty
may cast their dawning splendours over you, and a heavenly table may
be sent down for you, and your Lord may bless you, and shower His
riches upon you to gladden your bosoms and fill your hearts with
bliss, to attract your minds, and cleanse your souls, and console your
eyes."

(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 186)

Albert

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re: Sale of cigarettes

2006-10-13 Thread firestorm

h.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Tobacco/Data/table12.pdf.
suggests tht net exports in $us of tobacco from the usa are going down rather 
rapidly.
   other available data from gogle will show china, india, malawi as 
likewise heavy growers. 
 the Baha'i Faith is neutral on tobacco. the Master Himself wasn;t very big on 
it,...but thn, hehehehe, here we are right back at a thread i hit a few weeks 
ago. the so-called Tablet of Purity makes it quite clear that opium is an 
issue. 
so why aren;t we talking about hmmm. how about this for example??
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/press_release_2006_09_01.html
 i'm going to go out on a demographic limb here and guess that i am the only 
member of this list to have smoked decent grade opium. as such, please allow me 
to assure people that 6100 tonnes of opium is a lot of opium. who consumes it? 
well, the iranians, actually, toke quite a bit, to the point that 12 step 
programs are no longer harassed by th cops.
   if all this ere a mattter of economics, the usa would be all for opium being 
epxirted from afghanistan, since it tends to end up in nations the usa would 
thorietically like to see less prodictive and effective.
  and yet:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15654052.htm
 i happen to have gotten a phone call last night from a lilitary wife 
compaining about this situation. i explained to her that unless and until fair 
trade for land usage and the >>full<< adherence to the Master's comments about 
opium were in place, it's all just bidness.
   but of course also yesterday, the city where i am currently camped banned 
tobacco use in bars and restaurants, leaving me only able to walk 100 yeards 
one way to get marijuana, shrooms, and exstacy, and 100 yards another to get 
rock cocaine and heroin, but soon nowhere to walk or drive to sit someplace 
sipping a mountain dew and smoking a cigarillo.
   

 
 
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Sale of cigarettes

2006-10-13 Thread Brent Poirier Attorney at Law

The US balance of trade is at the highest unfavorable level in history. So
the US government agencies assist the largest exporters to sell their
products overseas, because it has a crucial beneficial economic impact on
the US balance of trade. Among the corporations that have the most
substantial favorable impact on the balance of trade, are the cigarette
companies. They export vast sums of cigarettes around the world. Far from
outlawing their sale, the US Dept of Commerce encourages and facilitates
their sale through trade conferences and export promotion services.

So we have the spectacle (because of lawsuits) of US cigarette manufacturers
running ads on American television directly discouraging smoking among young
people. So this assuages the consciences of the American people, and cuts
down on the lawsuits in American courts. Yet these same cigarette companies
have huge foreign advertising campaigns designed to get many millions of
young people around the world addicted to cigarette smoking, particularly in
developing countries where they are the most vulnerable to the sophisticated
advertising. It is a moral crime of huge magnitude.

This is my understanding and my personal opinion.

Brent

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