I disagree, I believe people are programmed to be memetically
yielding.
>
>> > Once it enters society, peer pressure takes over.
>> >Just because it's bad for you doesn't make them selling it wrong.
>> >Tobacco's already in society. IT's not a new product, so restricting
>> >the advertising (flashback from a post a while ago) is useless.
>>
>> I strongly disagree on this point. (And yet on a deeper level I
>> agree). If restricting advertising which is a control strategy in
>> memespace is useless then does this imply all memetic engineering
>> efforts are useless?
>
>No. If a new product is denied advertising, then it's memes cannot
>propogate. But, as we have discussed here at some point, an established
>meme is quite hard to kill, and will keep surfacing no matter what you
>do. Since tobacco has already reached the state where advertising is
>not it's main meme source, banning its advertising would not make much
>difference.
Then answer me this. Why do the Tabacco co.s spend so much on
advertising and sponsorship? Please dont give me the "market share
argument" or else I will have to conclude that you are stupid and have
small dysfunctional testicles.
>Yes I do. Every time I go to bed after smoking too much, and wheeze
>myself to sleep. I think "Fuck this stuff is killing me..."
You think it, but you dont really believe it.
>
>> Nobody knows until they are at least diagnosed with
>> terminal lung cancer. And even then most people will have dealing
>> strategies so that they dont fully realise the enormity of their fate.
>
>Life's a bitch and then you die. I'm not scared of dying.
Then you dont really understand what death means.
[if I were a Tabacco profiteer I'd continue]
>> Same here but I'd be crapping in my pants at the thought of one
>> of the brink of death lung cancer patients deciding with not an ounce of
>> doubt that it would be one final virtuous act to kill a carefully chosen
>> person from Tabacco plc.
>
>So hire body gaurds. You'd be rich enough.
I am sure they will when they learn that some of their
colleugues have been targeted, its all part of the disinsentive process.
[ciggys dont kill guns do, no they dont carbon monoxide does, no it
doesnt lack of oxygen does, no it doesnt birth does]
What a bunch of kids you are, I like you all more each day.
Tony Hindle.