boycott tobacco - Nabisco
msa...@pop.erols.com
As a practicing buddhist I try to deal with suffering wherever I see
it. The recent move to limit tobacco has caught my attention - having
had a friend die from cancer I feel safe in stating the smoking leads
to suffering. I personally am going to stop buying Nabisco products
until they stop selling cigarettes. I don't think people should
profit from the suffering of others, and I don't feel like supporting
those who do. I urge you to join me in the boycott. The following is
the only web site I've seen that appears relevant.
I've sent an electronic postcard to Nabisco informing them of my
decison.
may all beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.
Michael
RJR Nabisco: Playing the Field
"astroturf lobbying "
The Corporate Imbalance Sheet
85%
Us adults who want their member of Congress to support FDA action
to stop tobacco
marketing to children.
$3,279,696
Value of advertising space purchased by RJR Nabisco in just six
major US newspapers for a
series of full-page ads attacking the FDA proposals over one
month in 1995.
81%
Americans who don't trust tobacco corporations' voluntary
restrictions on tobacco marketing
to children.
$32,413,000
RJR Nabisco's US advertising budget for Camel cigarettes in 1994.
$28,600,000
RJR Nabisco's operating profit from illegal sales to US youth in
1995.
6%
Decline in Nabisco's US operating profit in 1995, the first year
of an INFACT Boycott ū in
contrast to Nabisco CEO John Greeniaus' rosy projection that
"this company's real glory
years still lie ahead... No food company has more new product
momentum."
44%
Projected increase in value of RJR Nabisco stock if the food
business were freed from its
deadly partnership with tobacco.
38%
Shareholders favoring an immediate spin-off of the Nabisco food
business in a binding
resolution sponsored by the Interfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility in 1996.
$10,000
1995-96 PAC contributions by RJR Nabisco to Senator Jesse Helms
of North Carolina,
sponsor of a bill to block the FDA's attempt to end tobacco brand
sponsorship of stock car
racing.
13%
Camel's market share among US youth.
4%
Camel's market share among US adults.
$91,000
1986-96 PAC contributions by RJR Nabisco and other tobacco
corporations to Kentucky
Senator Wendell Ford, sponsor of a bill in 1997 to block FDA
enforcement of tobacco
regulations.
35
Number of registered federal lobbyists in 1996.
77
Registered lobbyists in 34 states in 1996.
$2,006,581
PAC and soft money contributions in the 1996 federal election
cycle.
$50,000
RJR Nabisco donations to GOPAC, Representative Newt Gingrich's
conservative political
action committee, between 1986 and 1993.
Philip Rosemond
Don't use RJ Reynolds tobacco, and Nabisco products...sure.
Boycott? No. boycotting is war. War is an unskillful act.
Sure these guys had this planned all along. And, just about
every one knows it!
Look, politics utilizes lying, cheating and war.
Fighting Politics with politics only SUPPORTS politics
-- and, subsequently, war...not a very dharmic way of handling
things...How about Tonglen. Now THATS skillful action!!!!
yours in Dharma, Philip.
msa...@pop.erols.com
flip...@speakeasy.org (Philip Rosemond) wrote:
Phillip,
I had not thought of a boycott as "war." I was thinking of it more
along hte lines of non-violent resistance. I agree that tonglen is a
good idea, (difficult as it is to do tonglen for people with cancer
and the people who profit from the cancer) - and thank you for your
reply. But could you talk more about how you see a boycott as war? I
agree it is an attempt at coercion, but I don't see it as war. But
I'm willing to learn.
yours,
michael
GT
msa...@pop.erols.com wrote:
>
> flip...@speakeasy.org (Philip Rosemond) wrote:
>
> >
> > Don't use RJ Reynolds tobacco, and Nabisco products...sure.
Which tobacco do you recommand ?
> > Boycott? No. boycotting is war. War is an unskillful act.
Soon you will say that talking is a war too !?
> > Sure these guys had this planned all along. And, just about
> > every one knows it!
> >
> > Look, politics utilizes lying, cheating and war.
> > Fighting Politics with politics only SUPPORTS politics
Hummm.... that is called democraty my friend. Get "in tune" with this
world.
> >-- and, subsequently, war...not a very dharmic way of handling
> > things...How about Tonglen. Now THATS skillful action!!!!
> >
> > yours in Dharma, Philip.
> Phillip,
> I had not thought of a boycott as "war." I was thinking of it more
> along hte lines of non-violent resistance.
And it is the best idea : (Gandhi)
>I agree that tonglen is a
> good idea, (difficult as it is to do tonglen for people with cancer
> and the people who profit from the cancer) - and thank you for your
> reply. But could you talk more about how you see a boycott as war? I
> agree it is an attempt at coercion, but I don't see it as war. But
> I'm willing to learn.
> yours,
> michael
Keep up the good work ! Cheers !
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P.S. Is tong-len considered like second-hand smoking ? Can we start a
class suit on that ? We could say that because of the Bodhisattva Vows
we are more vulnerable.
GT
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kunukia
On Thu, 09 Apr 1998 11:55:51 GMT, msa...@pop.erols.com wrote:
Hmmmmm, my mother, an intelligent, lucid almost-80-year old has been
smoking since she was 18. She was recently told she has the heart and
lungs of a twenty something. I have no doubt that smoking contributes
to cancer and heart disease. Genetics and other factors are also very
relevant.
I eat too much sugar (which can lead to diabetes in those disposed
that way by genetics). My son sits at a keyboard 16 hours a day
(which can lead to carpal tunnel, and certainly has contributed to his
muscles current state of non-athletic atrophy.
Perhaps it is now time to have a class action suit against the sugar-
producers and those nasty folks who write computer programs, clearly
meant to trap the unwary.
I don't do boycotts.
kunukia
>As a practicing buddhist I try to deal with suffering wherever I see
>it. The recent move to limit tobacco has caught my attention - having
>had a friend die from cancer I feel safe in stating the smoking leads
>to suffering. I personally am going to stop buying Nabisco products
>until they stop selling cigarettes. I don't think people should
>profit from the suffering of others, and I don't feel like supporting
>those who do. I urge you to join me in the boycott. The following is
>the only web site I've seen that appears relevant.
>I've sent an electronic postcard to Nabisco informing them of my
>decison.
>may all beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.
And may they all be free from coercion. coersion?
k