on 6/21/00 9:51 AM, Trey at trey@ne*.co* wrote:

> 2 words out of your post say it all : 1) addiction, 2) money. Sounds like
> deep air and training agencies.
> 
> What mazes me when I go to a public dive site, a dive store or a dive boat
> is the number of INSTRUCTORS who smoke.


Trey,

That is the crux of it. The tobacco industry doesn't spend billions on
advertising and publicity and positive spin because it DOESN'T work. They
know that through their influence they have spawned a cadre of semi-militant
smokers who see it as a civil-rights issue. It would be if they would all
quit their jobs and crawl under a rock and die once they are diagnosed with
smoking-related diseases. Because their absences and the cost of medical
care isn't just borne by them, it's borne by the whole economy.

Hell, Americans get pissed when the price of oil goes up to $150. Why aren't
they pissed at the $50 billion LOST every year to smokers and smoking
diseases?

Later,

JoeL

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