After watching Robert Proctor's lecture on youtube (see below), I stumbled upon a clear example of a point he made about today's tobacco advertising. He talked about how cigarette cubicles are bright, -- purposefully designed that way and that even the placement of the advertising and location of the surgeon generals' warning is placed carefully...
Indeed. Not long after the lecture, I was at the grocery store and noticed the surgeon general's warning was located at the top of the curve of Marlboro Country. Not surprising, but by gawd, he was right.
This important lecture has little over 2200 views--published in 2013.
As I've blogged before, quitting smoking (never mind abolition of tobacco-though not private use) is a very unpopular.
Huh, I wonder why? Could it be that in Marlboro Country there is no equal time for the truth?
Please watch this hour long lecture. You'll be saying, "Gawd, I didn't know that."
Robert Proctor: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (lecture)
Published on May 22, 2013
On Friday, March 29, 2013, Dr. Robert Proctor spoke to the Johns Hopkins community about cigarettes or "the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization," and the cause for their abolition.
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