[[Matt Yglesias]] of the [[Center for American Progress]] has criticized this article of mine, and an interesting bunch of comments follow on his site. Check it out [http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/03/cap_iraq_and_afghanistan.php here].
Hollywood studios and tobacco companies began working together in 1927. Two-thirds of top stars in 1930s and 1940s had cigarette endorsement contracts, brokered by their studios in exchange for national print and radio advertising paid for by the tobacco companies. In the 1950s and 1960s, the tobacco industry was a leading owner and sponsor of network TV shows. After tobacco commercials were banned from TV and radio in 1970, the companies launched systematic product placement campaigns involving hundreds of Hollywood films — more than a third of them kid-rated. Today, film studios owned by the best-known media companies still resist effective steps to block tobacco industry influence.
This history is documented in once-secret tobacco industry files uncovered during lawsuits. To learn more about , visit this authoritative UC-San Francisco web site: www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu.
Obama is playing the hand he inherited. It may not be strategically possible to abandon Iraq and Afghanistan without being responsible for a huge bloodbath that will destabilize the region for years to come. Isolationism is not a viable policy.
<blockquote>"...what is left over is much denser and more dangerous than what they started with, there is just less mass to it. It poses even more of a storage problem because of that."</blockquote>
Just shred it up and put it in cigarettes. Smokers will defend to the death their right to suck it in.
Unlimited clean energy, waste disposal practically takes care of itself -- what's not to like? ;-)
Hollywood studios and tobacco companies began working together in 1927. Two-thirds of top stars in 1930s and 1940s had cigarette endorsement contracts, brokered by their studios in exchange for national print and radio advertising paid for by the tobacco companies. In the 1950s and 1960s, the tobacco industry was a leading owner and sponsor of network TV shows. After tobacco commercials were banned from TV and radio in 1970, the companies launched systematic product placement campaigns involving hundreds of Hollywood films — more than a third of them kid-rated. Today, film studios owned by the best-known media companies still resist effective steps to block tobacco industry influence.
This history is documented in once-secret tobacco industry files uncovered during lawsuits. To learn more about , visit this authoritative UC-San Francisco web site: www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu.
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