{"id":4418,"date":"2011-05-11T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2011-05-12T01:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T08:14:25","slug":"phillip-morris-ceo-to-become-new-al-qaeda-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4418","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Morris CEO To Become New Al Qaeda Chief?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At their annual shareholder’s meeting in New York, Phillip Morris CEO, Louis C. Camilleri, spoke about<\/a> the addictive nature of cigarettes and the obstacles to quitting. He said…<\/p>\n

“We take our responsibility very seriously, and I don’t think we get enough recognition for the efforts we make to ensure that there is effective worldwide regulation of a product that is harmful and that is addictive. Nevertheless, whilst it is addictive, it is not that hard to quit. … There are more previous smokers in America today than current smokers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow! This guy could be a Fox News anchor with his championship skills at lying. Let’s address them one at a time.<\/p>\n

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  1. Phillip Morris has opposed every effort to regulate tobacco products that has ever come up, particularly the effective regulations.<\/li>\n
  2. Why should he get recognition for selling a product he admits is harmful and addictive? It’s like a crack dealer asking for more recognition.<\/li>\n
  3. It’s not that hard to quit? Studies have shown that cigarettes are harder to quit than heroin.<\/li>\n
  4. There are NOT more previous smokers in America today than current smokers (see below). But there are more DEAD smokers in America today than current smokers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Smoking kills over 400,000 Americans every year, and 5 million worldwide. There are presently estimated to be about 46 million smokers<\/a> in the United States. According to the Lung Association there are only 36 million former smokers<\/a>. And that doesn’t count those who are no longer smoking because they are no longer breathing.<\/p>\n

    But the most despicable part of Camilleri’s remarks is the contention that “it is not that hard to quit.”<\/em> The only purpose for promoting that lie is to entice people who don’t currently smoke to do so, and to dissuade smokers from quitting. After all, you can do that any old time with hardly any effort. Never mind that cigarettes are harmful and addictive, they are easy to set aside should you ever choose to do so.<\/p>\n

    Now that Osama Bin Laden has been “retired”<\/em> from the executive position at Al Qaeda, there has been some talk of who will succeed him. If they are looking for someone who has no qualms about killing people in mass quantities, they ought to consider Camilleri. His casualty count far surpasses that of Bin Laden, an amateur by comparison. He appears to have little or no conscience. He doesn’t mind being responsible for the exploding death rate of American citizens. And he just might be able to help them turn a profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At their annual shareholder’s meeting in New York, Phillip Morris CEO, Louis C. Camilleri, spoke about the addictive nature of cigarettes and the obstacles to quitting. He said… “We take our responsibility very seriously, and I don’t think we get enough recognition for the efforts we make to ensure that there is effective worldwide regulation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[886],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-phillip-morris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-19g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8599,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8599","url_meta":{"origin":4418,"position":0},"title":"FoxBlocked: What Becomes Of The Fox News Rejects?","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/5\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday the news broke that Karl Rove and Dick Morris were being designated pundit-non-grata, at least temporarily, by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. 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