about it, but sure: it's a huge and productive industry in lots of ways, which is exactly what its many many lobbyists are spending their days telling the relevant Congressmen. But regardless of whatever "freedoms" one wants to debate concerning smoking and advertising, I tend not to buy the "harms industry" argument when it comes to environmental regulations or labor standards, so I can't really start with this one.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)