[PD] Tobacco (was: Web Netiquette (was: a book about libpd))

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2012-03-09 à 14:26:00, Py Fave a écrit :

> the problem with cigarettes is being able to make your own.

The problem with cigarettes is smoking them. If it were not a problem, 
then the problem would be to grow them, because if you merely roll them, 
then you're still buying Drum tobacco and Riz Lacroix (RizLa+) paper from 
the same company as Gauloises, Gitanes and JPS, for example, which are all 
readymade, if that's the problem you have with them.

But the problem with cigarettes is smoking them. The companies selling 
them created the lifestyle and encouraged the craving. Basically everybody 
fell for that.

An association of ninety thousand smokers sues tobacco companies over 
health issues for 23 billion of $ right now. They deposited their request 
in 1999, and one should wonder why it took that long for the courts to 
accept launching the trial. In the end, the Cour Supérieure du Québec will 
start hearing them now. This makes it the largest anti-tobacco trial ever 
in Canada.

http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/justice/344619/le-megaproces-du-tabac
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/201203/08/01-4503809-recours-collectif-des-victimes-du-tabac-le-proces-debute-13-ans-plus-tard.php

(But this seems extremely underreported in canadian english-language 
media... you may only guess why that is.)

Anyway... what you say has nothing to do with Julian's problem with 
cigarettes, and neither does what I'm saying now.

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