Is it hilarious and fitting that Phillip Morris funds thetruth.com?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

BRTD, why not simply read Philip Morris' website?

http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/health_issues/default.asp

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Yes but they among the last ever to admit that.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I am channeling my inner teenager, and he is saying that anti-smoking campaigns aimed at teenagers make him want to smoke.

By this point everyone is fully aware that smoking is unhealthy, detrimental, generally frowned upon, won't make you cool or popular, and is largely gross. These campaigns make these facts even more trite, to the point where they can be easily dismissed. In a strange way, it is almost beneficial for Phillip Morris to fund such things. They can appear to be funding a public good while at the same forming a new callous generation of defiant smokers.

Word.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Those are good points, although on the last part I would note that frankly the tobacco companies support the War on Drugs, including laws against marijuana, simply because they theorize that if marijuana were cheaper to buy (as it would be if legalized), people would buy less cigarettes.  Actually, maybe that's the alcohol industry.  From what I understand there's a high correlation between smoking and the use of nearly any illicit drug.

Actually it would not surprise me if in the near future  the tobacco industry comes out for marijuana legalization at least. For a start they have the ability and means to deliver goods at a mass level, unlike say the illegal growers and secondly Marijuana has nowadays a far less social stigma than tobacco does; despite the former being illegal (in name only if we are being honest; but the establishment, WTI, would like to think otherwise.)