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Booze ads, but no cigs?

Here’s a news headline we never see: “Police say fatal car crash caused by man smoking too many Marlboros.”Yet, on TV, where intelligent minds go to wither, Crown Royal (Canadian whiskey) can run commercials during an NFL game, but Marlboro has to stay on the sidelines, hidden out of sight. Which tells us only one thing and one thing only: The people making money from the alcohol industry paid the politicians more money for protection than did those in the tobacco industry.Only thing that makes sense in this follow-the-money (always) world we call American capitalism, where government regulations, litigation placed ...

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