Play it again
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Play It Again is a section of the journal where we re-publish quotes, gaffes, and immortal lines from friends and foes of tobacco control. It is compiled by Gene Borio, the webmaster of Tobacco BBS, which is the premier tobacco news-gathering site on the internet. Send contributions (including an original version or photocopy of the sourced item) to him at Tobacco BBS, PO Box 359, Village Station, New York 10014-0359; fax +1 212 260 6825. Send quotes from online stories (including the full article) or scanned documents (in GIF or JPEG) format, to gborio@mindspring.com.
The
tobacco control community doesn't have addictive drugs to sell, so
can't hire US$300 000-a-year spin doctors to work our way through
generation-upon-generation of focus groups, to develop just the right
way to frame our arguments, to find the most apt sound bite to appeal
to each particular personality, to delicately yet succinctly phrase our
viewpoint in the precise
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